Please view the original advisory here. # Exploit Title: Joomla Component ActiveHelper LiveHelp XSS Vulnerabilities # Date: 18.05.2010 # Author: Valentin # Category: webapps/0day # Version: 2.0.3 # Tested on: # CVE : # Code : [:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 0x1 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::] >> General Information Advisory/Exploit Title = Joomla Component ActiveHelper LiveHelp XSS Vulnerabilities Author = Valentin Hoebel [...]

What if there was a project which checks all available extensions for popular CMS (such as Joomla or WordPress) for vulnerabilities and therefore creates a list of “trusted” and secure plugins on which ppl can rely on? During the last weeks I spent much time thinking about the security of websites in general. While many [...]

On the 6th May 2010 a new version of Google Skipfish (penetration testing tool/vulnerability scanner) was released. View the changelog here. Download it here. According to the changelog not many things were changed.

Please view the original advisory here.

Please view original advisory here.

View the txt advisory/exploit here. >> #1 Vulnerability Type = XSS Almost every parameter accepting user input is vulnerable. Examples: members/login.php?username=[XSS] members/signup.php?username=[XSS] admin/userdetails.php?userId=[XSS] >> Additional Information When being installed, the Rad User Manager creates two accounts with default passwords: Login: “admin” Password: “radmin” Login: “user” Password: “radmin”

I recently had the time to test Google’s Skipfish. It is a fully automated penetration testing tool and was just published some weeks ago. This little tutorial will show Debian/Ubuntu users how to install it and perform the first test. I. Introduction Tools like Nessus and Nmap are indispensable when it comes down to security [...]

View the original advisory here. This is most probably the most funny advisory I ever published. I found some decent vulnerabilities within the code of the very popular counter “chCounter”. It is fact a very cool counter. Simply implement the counter file into your website and view the stats in the admin backend. >> #1 [...]

Please view the advisory here. The small guestbook “Sethi Family Guestbook” suffers from several XSS vulnerabilities. Please read the advisory for details.

Please view the original advisory here. The very popular download manager dl_stats suffers from various vulnerabilities. #1 SQL Injection #2 XSS #3 Unprotected Admin Panel The vendor seems to have rewritten the software, since version 2.0 dl_stats is no longer vulnerable to SQLI and XSS. But… 90 percent of the websites using dl_stats did NOT upgrade [...]