Joomla! Admin Tools Component Cross-Site Scripting and Request Forgery Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42718

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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http://secunia.com/advisories/42718/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=42718

RELEASE DATE:
2010-12-26
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Admin Tools component
for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks.

1) Certain unspecified input passed to the backend is not properly
sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in
context of an affected site.

2) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP
requests without performing any validity checks to verify the
requests. This can be exploited to perform unspecified actions by
tricking a logged in administrative user into visiting a malicious
web site.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Jeff Channell.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.akeebabackup.com/home/item/929-security-release-admin-tools-1-1.html