PT-2014-2071 · Binarycanary · Timthumb

Massive Horse · Published 2014-08-21 · Updated 2014-08-22 · CVE-2009-5142

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 TimThumb versions 1.09 and earlier

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the src parameter in the timthumb.php file. This can be exploited by attackers to execute malicious scripts on the victim's browser.

Recommendations For TimThumb versions 1.09 and earlier, avoid using the src parameter in the timthumb.php file until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the timthumb.php file to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-5142

Affected Products

Timthumb

References · 6

• 🔥 https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/issues/detail?id=49 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127724/WordPress-Gamespeed-Theme-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Exploit
• https://code.google.com/p/timthumb/source/detail?r=65 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-5142 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-5142 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/71878 · Note