SecurityResearch-101

By- Samrat Das Hi Readers Recently in one of my pentest research, I found a CMS " WonderCMS" hosted in github. Curious to explore its functionalities, I downloaded and set it up in my local system. After fiddling with the source code, I found that it did not have any kind of security mechanism to filter any user input and accepted and stored in blindly without any sort of input validation Title of the Vulnerability:   Stored XSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System:  7.0 Vulnerability Class:  Injection Technical Details & Description:  The application source code is coded in a way which allows user input values to be stored and processed by the application. CVE ID allocated :  CVE-2017-14522 Product & Service Introduction:  Wonder CMS 2.3.1 WonderCMS is an open source CMS (Content Management System) built with PHP, jQuery, HTML and CSS (Bootstrap responsive). WonderCMS doesn't require any configuration and can be si...

By- Samrat Das Hi Readers Recently in one of my pentest research, I found a CMS " WonderCMS" hosted in github. Curious to explore its functionalities, I downloaded and set it up in my local system. After fiddling with the source code, I found that it did not have any kind of security mechanism to filter the host redirections based on the HTTP header. Using this it became possible to perform host header injection attack. Title of the Vulnerability:   Host Header Injection Common Vulnerability Scoring System:  7.0 Vulnerability Class:  Injection Technical Details & Description:  The application source code is coded in a way which allows arbitrary host header to be defined leading to redirection/ user url manipulation CVE ID allocated :  CVE-2017-14523 Product & Service Introduction:  Wonder CMS 2.3.1 WonderCMS is an open source CMS (Content Management System) built with PHP, jQuery, HTML and CSS (Bootstrap responsive). ...

By- Samrat Das Hi Readers Recently in one of my pentest research, I found a CMS " WonderCMS" hosted in github. Curious to explore its functionalities, I downloaded and set it up in my local system. After fiddling with the source code, I found that it did not have any kind of file upload security mechanism and allowed the user to upload any file type! After reporting it to them, I did not receive any security relevant response, hence decided to publish a blog on this. Title of the Vulnerability:   Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Class: Security Misconfiguration Technical Details & Description: The application source code is coded in a way which allows arbitrary file extensions to be uploaded. This leads to uploading of remote shells/ malicious Trojans which can lead to complete system compromise and server takeover. CVE ID allocated :  CVE-2017-14521 Product & Service Introduction: Wonder CMS 2.3.1 WonderCMS is an open source CMS (Content Ma...