Description
Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in symphony/content/content.publish.php in Symphony CMS 2.2.3 and possibly other versions before 2.2.4 allow remote authenticated users with Author permissions to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the filter parameter to (1) symphony/publish/comments or (2) symphony/publish/images. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via error messages. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Exploit-DB 1
- Symphony 2.2.3 - '/symphony/publish/comments?filter' SQL Injection EDB-36281 · webapps · Nov 1, 2011 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-and-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-symphony-cms/
- 20111101 XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities on Symphony CMS 2.2.3 mailing-list
- symphony-filter-sql-injection(71105) vdb-entry
- 46663 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/symphonycms/symphony-2/commit/476e4926e2773588eab10dd3036f27e1411521b5
- 76884 vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20111122 Re: CVE-request: Symphony CMS Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities (NS-11-008) mailing-list
- http://symphony-cms.com/download/releases/version/2.2.4/
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/106493/symphonycms-sqlxss.txt