RatioSec Advisory Reference | RS-2016-001 |
Product | JSN PowerAdmin Joomla! Extension |
Vendor | JoomlaShine.com |
Tested Versions | 2.3.0 |
Other Vulnerable Versions | Prior versions may also be affected |
Vendor Notification | 28th January, 2016 |
Advisory Publication | 24th February, 2016 |
CVE Reference | Pending |
Risk Level | High |
CVSSv3 Base Score | AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
Advisory
RatioSec Research has discovered two cross-site request forgery and reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in JSN PowerAdmin which can be exploited, respectively, to upload PHP files and run arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of the affected web site.
1) The cross-site request forgery vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to upload PHP files and subsequently execute arbitrary commands.
The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing proper validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to upload PHP files via the extension installer and subsequently execute arbitrary commands with the web server privileges by tricking a logged-in administrator into visiting a malicious web site.
2) The reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of the affected web site.
Input passed to identified_name
GET parameter when package
is set, option
is set to com_poweradmin
, view
is set to installer
, and task
is set to installer.install
in /administrator/index.php
is not properly sanitised before being reflected. This can be exploited to run arbitrary HTML and script code in a administrator’s browser session in context of the affected web site.
Proof Of Concept
1) The following HTML page exploits the cross-site request forgery vulnerability and uploads a malicious PHP script system($_GET['cmd']);
as /tmp/bd.phtml
if visited by a logged-in administrator.
The file extension .phtml
and the <script language="php"> </script>
tags are used here to fool the Joomla API JFile::upload()
file validation checks. As result, the backdoor is installed permanently as /tmp/bd.phtml
which can be used lately by the attacker to obtain the full system compromise.
2) The following URL exploits the cross-site scripting vulnerability to execute javascript code in a logged-in administrator’s browser.
Solution
No official solution is currently available.
Timeline
- First contact: 27th January, 2016
- Disclosure: 28th January, 2016. Preliminary date set to 10th, February 2016.
- E-mail notice after no response: 02nd February, 2016
- Advisory Publication: 24th February, 2016