Mingle Forum Plugin for WordPress Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

vendor:

Mingle Forum Plugin

by:

SecurityFocus

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: Mingle Forum Plugin

Affected Version From: 1.0.33

Affected Version To: 1.0.33

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2012

Mingle Forum Plugin for WordPress Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

The Mingle Forum plugin for WordPress is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that untrusted data is not used to dynamically generate web content.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53529/info

The Mingle Forum plugin for WordPress is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

Mingle Forum 1.0.33 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=mfstructure&amp;mingleforum_action=structure&amp;do=addforum&amp;groupid=%27%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3C/script%3E

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=mfgroups&amp;mingleforum_action=usergroups&amp;do=edit_usergroup&amp;usergroup_id=1%27%3%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29;%3C/script%3E