OneCenter ForumOne Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

vendor:

ForumOne

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Remote Code Execution

CWE

Product Name: ForumOne

Affected Version From: 4

Affected Version To: 4

Patch Exists: NO

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

2002

OneCenter ForumOne Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A problem with Onecenter ForumOne could allow remote users to execute arbitrary code in the context of the web site hosting ForumOne. The problem occurs due to the lack of sanitization performed on data embedded within HTML tags. This issue may be exploited to steal cookie-based authentication credentials from legitimate users of the website implementing the vulnerable software. The attacker may hijack the session of the legitimate by using cookie-based authentication credentials. Other attacks are also possible.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that user-supplied data is properly sanitized before being embedded within HTML tags.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7441/info

OneCenter ForumOne 4.0 is a full-featured, web-based group discussion forum.

A problem with Onecenter ForumOne could allow remote users to execute arbitrary code in the context of the web site hosting ForumOne. The problem occurs due to the lack of sanitization performed on data embedded within HTML tags.

This issue may be exploited to steal cookie-based authentication credentials from legitimate users of the website implementing the vulnerable software. The attacker may hijack the session of the legitimate by using cookie-based authentication credentials. Other attacks are also possible.

Altough this vulnerability was reported to affect OneCenter ForumOne version 4.0, previous version may also be affected. 

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