PT-2007-6175 · Sphpblog · Sphpblog

Published 2007-09-24 · Updated 2018-10-15 · CVE-2007-5072

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SPHPBlog versions prior to 0.5.1

Description The issue concerns multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain user colors array parameters to specific user style.php files under the themes/ directory. This is particularly problematic when register globals is enabled. An example of a vulnerable parameter is user colors[bg color].

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.5.1, update to version 0.5.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the register globals setting to minimize the risk of exploitation. Restrict access to the user style.php files under the themes/ directory to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using the user colors array parameters in the affected API endpoints until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-5072

Affected Products

Sphpblog

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5072 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26968 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/25802 · Note
• http://simplephpblog.com/index.php?m=09&y=07 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/480569/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securenetwork.it/ricerca/advisory/download/SN-2007-03.txt · Note
• http://simplephpblog.com/comments.php?y=07&m=09&entry=entry070923-004446 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36783 · Note