In this technical blog post we examine a critical vulnerability in the core of the TYPO3 CMS which was detected by our static code analysis tool RIPS (CVE-2019-12747). A reliable exploit allows the execution of arbitrary PHP code on the underlying system as authenticated user.

We are proud to release RIPS 3.2 today with a groundbreaking preview feature: RIPS Automated Patch Generation fixes your vulnerable code lines for the most efficient issue remediation. Our new update also comes with many improvements of RIPS’ PHP and Java analysis engine, usability improvements, as well as with an IDE integration for Visual Studio Code and Eclipse.

This blog post shows how the combination of a HTML sanitizer bug and a Phar Deserialization in the popular eCommerce solution Magento <=2.3.1 lead to a high severe exploit chain. This chain can be abused by an unauthenticated attacker to fully takeover certain Magento stores and to redirect payments.

In this blog post we will show how to exploit a SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2019-12872) found by RIPS Code Analysis in the popular java-based content management system dotCMS and how we escalated it to execute code remotely.

This blog post shows how an attacker can take over any board hosted with MyBB prior to version 1.8.21 by sending a malicious private message to an administrator or by creating a malicious post. We use a chain of two security vulnerabilities detected in the code.