PT-2009-2709 · Modx · Modx Cms

Published 2009-09-17 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-7242

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 MODx CMS versions 0.9.6.1 through 0.9.6.1p1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain parameters to various pages. The vulnerable parameters include search, a, messagesubject, and messagebody to pages reachable from manager/index.php, highlight, id, email, name, and parent to index.php, and docgrp and moreResultsPage to index-ajax.php.

Recommendations For MODx CMS versions 0.9.6.1 through 0.9.6.1p1, consider disabling access to the vulnerable parameters until a patch is available. Restrict access to the manager/index.php, index.php, and index-ajax.php pages to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using the vulnerable parameters in the affected API endpoints until the issue is resolved. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-7242

Affected Products

Modx Cms

References · 8

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/31120 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/27672 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7242 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28840 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/487696/100/200/threaded · Note
• http://osvdb.org/41232 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-7242 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40375 · Note