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CVE-2018-14840

cve-2018 | Level: Easy  | Total Lab Runs: 0 | Premium Lab

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In this exercise, the attacker has admin access already so there is nothing more to be done. However, looks like the admin access does lead to an XSS attack. So you can try to find this XSS as purely academic exercise.

Subrion CMS is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework and support plugins for extending the functionality.


Subrion CMS (4.2.1) is vulnerable to a Stored Cross Site Scripting documented in CVE-2018-14840.

The following username and passwords may be used to explore the application and/or find a vulnerability which might require authenticated access:

UsernamePassword
adminadmin
Objective: Your task is to find and exploit this vulnerability.

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