Vulnerability Scanner And Information Gatherer For The Concrete5 CMS – C5Scan

Vulnerability scanner and data gatherer for the Concrete5 CMS or C5Scan. Is somewhat outdated by and by pending a refactor.

Concrete5 is an open-source content management system (CMS) for distributing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. concrete5 includes in-context altering. Editable zones are characterized in concrete5 layouts which enable editors to embed blocks of content. These can contain basic substance like text and pictures or have more intricate usefulness.

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Example Concrete5 CMS :

$ python c5scan.py -u localhost -r

**********************************************************
*                      ~ C5scan ~                        *
* A vulnerability and information gatherer for concrete5 *
*                auraltension@riseup.net                 *
**********************************************************

No http:// or https:// provided. Trying http://
URL: http://localhost/

[+] Discovered version 5.6.2.1 from meta 'generator' tag
[+] Interesting header: server: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
[+] Interesting header: x-powered-by: PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.24
[+] robots.txt found at  http://localhost/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /blocks 
Disallow: /concrete 
Disallow: /config 
Disallow: /controllers 
Disallow: /css 
Disallow: /elements 
Disallow: /helpers 
Disallow: /jobs 
Disallow: /js 
Disallow: /languages 
Disallow: /libraries 
Disallow: /mail 
Disallow: /models 
Disallow: /packages 
Disallow: /single_pages 
Disallow: /themes 
Disallow: /tools
Disallow: /updates

Enumerating updates in /updates/
[+] Update version 5.5.2.1 exists
[+] Update version 5.6.2.1 exists

Looking for Readme files
[+] Found a readme at:  http://localhost/concrete/libraries/3rdparty/adodb/readme.txt
[+] Found a readme at:  http://localhost/concrete/libraries/3rdparty/adodb/docs/docs-adodb.htm
[+] Found a readme at:  http://localhost/concrete/blocks/video/README
[+] Found a readme at:  http://localhost/concrete/libraries/3rdparty/StandardAnalyzer/Readme.txt
[+] Found a readme at:  http://localhost/concrete/libraries/3rdparty/securimage/README.txt

Checking for known vulnerabilities in updates
[+] A known vulnerability exists for 5.6.2.1:
SQL Injection in index.php cID param
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31735/

Checking for known vulnerabilities in current version
[+] A known vulnerability exists for 5.6.2.1:
SQL Injection in index.php cID param
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31735/

Finished.

 

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