FuseTalk Forums Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

vendor:

Forums

by:

SecurityFocus

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: Forums

Affected Version From: 3.2

Affected Version To: 3.2

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: FuseTalk Forums

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

FuseTalk Forums Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

FuseTalk Forums is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker could leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This could allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and 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/51227/info

FuseTalk Forums is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

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

FuseTalk Forums 3.2 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

http://www.example.com/login.cfm?windowed=%27;alert%28String.fromCharCode%2888,83,83%29%29//\%27;alert%28String.fromCharCode%2888,83,83%29%29//%22;alert%28String.fromCharCode%2888,83,83%29%29//\%22;alert%28String.fromCharCode%2888,83,83%29%29//--%3E%3C/SCRIPT%3E%22%3E%27%3E%3CSCRIPT%3Ealert%28String.fromCharCode%2888,83,83%29%29%3C/SCRIPT%3E