Drupal OM Maximenu Multiple Vulnerabilities

The Drupal OM Maximenu module, prior to versions 6.x-1.44 and 7.x-1.44, contains suffers from a number of vulnerabilities, including several arbitrary script injection (XSS) flaws. The module also gives users with permission to "Administer OM Maximenu" the ability to execute arbitrary PHP with no indication of the power of this privilege. This could allow attackers who gain access to accounts with this permission to compromise the host web server, attack other users, and more.

Drupal Inf08 Theme XSS Vulnerability

The Drupal Inf08 theme, prior to versions 6.x-1.10, contains a XSS vulnerability due to the fact that it fails to properly sanitize taxonomy terms before display. This could allow attackers who have the ability to create taxonomy terms to perform arbitrary script injection attacks via persistent cross site scripting.

Drupal Hotblocks Module XSS and DoS Vulnerabilities

The Drupal HotBlocks module contains a persistent cross site scripting (XSS), or arbitrary script injection, vulnerability due to the fact that it fails to sanitize user supplied data before display. The HotBlocks module also suffers from a denial of service vulnerability due to a user triggered infinite code loop.

Analysis of the RoundCube html2text Vulnerability

RoundCube Webmail Project (http://roundcube.net) is a popular, AJAX enabled web based email client. RoundCube utilizes a user friendly interface and allows users to access IMAP email via their web browser. RoundCube is written in PHP with a MySQL database and utilizes XHTML and CSS. RoundCube's intuitive interface and advanced UI functionality have made it a popular open source webmail client. Unfortunately RoundCube versions 0.2-3 beta and 0.2-1 alpha were found to contain a critical flaw that allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the web server (CVE-2008-5619). This article examines the root causes of that flaw and it's implications.

Exploiting the Drupal Suggest Terms Module

The Drupal Suggested Terms module is a convenience module that helps a content producer by presenting a hyperlinked list of taxonomy terms that can be clicked to populate category vocabulary. However, in versions prior to 5.x-1.2 a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists. This vulnerability was announced on June 25, 2008 in SA-2008-039 and requires that a malicious user be able to create or edit content using the suggested terms module.

Developing Drupal Module Exploits

Drupal is a wonderful Content Management System (CMS) that comes with a lot of extensible functionality. While the Drupal security team does a great job of making sure the core modules distributed with Drupal are secure, there are a host of third party contributed modules that often contain security problems. In this tutorial I'm going to pick on one module in particular and show you how to deduce security holes based on announcements to the Drupal security list.

Exploiting Input Validation

Exploiting form input validation failures is one of the easiest ways to leverage control of a web server through an online application. Being able to pull off this kind of attack requires a fairly comprehensive understanding of the methods used, as well as the weaknesses of various online applications. While there are myriad weaknesses in most common web applications, exploiting form input is one of the most common ways attackers use to gain control of a server process.