CMS Made Simple Design Manager Module cross site scripting

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in CMS Made Simple 2.2.21. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Design Manager Module. The manipulation of the argument Description leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

XSS exists in the CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) 2.1.6 "Content-->News-->Add Article" feature via the m1_summary parameter. Someone must login to conduct the attack.

CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) 2.1.6 allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary PHP code via the code parameter to admin/editusertag.php, related to the CreateTagFunction and CallUserTag functions. NOTE: the vendor reportedly has stated this is "a feature, not a bug.

In admin\addgroup.php in CMS Made Simple 2.1.6, when adding a user group, there is no XSS filtering, resulting in storage-type XSS generation, via the description parameter in an addgroup action.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in /admin/moduleinterface.php in CMS Made Simple 2.1.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the m1_description parameter (aka "Design Manager > Categories > Category Description").

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) 2.1.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "adminpage > sitesetting > General Settings > globalmetadata" field.

In CMS Made Simple 2.2.3.1, the is_file_acceptable function in modules/FileManager/action.upload.php only blocks file extensions that begin or end with a "php" substring, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions or trigger XSS via other extensions, as demonstrated by .phtml, .pht, .html, or .svg.

CMS Made Simple version 1.x Form Builder before version 0.8.1.6 allows remote attackers to conduct information-disclosure attacks via defaultadmin.

XSS exists in the CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) 2.1.6 "Content-->News-->Add Article" feature via the m1_content parameter. Someone must login to conduct the attack.

In CMS Made Simple 2.1.6, there is Server-Side Template Injection via the cntnt01detailtemplate parameter.

In CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) 2.2.2, remote authenticated administrators can upload a .php file via a FileManager action to admin/moduleinterface.php.

CMS Made Simple version 1.x Form Builder before version 0.8.1.6 allows remote attackers to execute PHP code via the cntnt01fbrp_forma_form_template parameter in admin_store_form.

CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) before 2.2.5 does not properly cache login information in sessions.

CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) before 2.2.5 does not properly cache login information in cookies.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in CMS Made Simple before 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create accounts via an admin/adduser.php request.

In CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) 2.2.2, remote authenticated administrators can upload a .php file via a CMSContentManager action to admin/moduleinterface.php, followed by a FilePicker action to admin/moduleinterface.php in which type=image is changed to type=file.

CMS Made Simple version 1.x Form Builder before version 0.8.1.6 allows remote attackers to conduct information-disclosure attacks via exportxml.

In CMS Made Simple 2.2.2, there is Reflected XSS via the cntnt01detailtemplate parameter.

XSS exists in the CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) 2.1.6 "Content-->News-->Add Article" feature via the m1_title parameter. Someone must login to conduct the attack.

SQL injection vulnerability in the News module in CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) before 1.11.10 allows remote authenticated users with the "Modify News" permission to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the sortby parameter to admin/moduleinterface.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.