Ultra Light Forum Persistant XSS Vulnerability

vendor:

Ultra Light Forum

by:

cr4wl3r

8,8

CVSS

HIGH

Persistant XSS

CWE

Product Name: Ultra Light Forum

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

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: Windows 7

2013

Ultra Light Forum Persistant XSS Vulnerability

Ultra Light Forum is a standalone forum developed in PHP and MySQL with high speed and user-friendliness. It allows users to create and delete topics, reply to others topics, and vote in polls. A vulnerability exists in the profile settings, where a malicious user can inject a script into the messages box. If any user views the profile, the script will be executed.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to prevent malicious scripts from being injected into the messages box.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Ultra Light Forum Persistant XSS Vulnerability
# By cr4wl3r http://bastardlabs.info
# http://bastardlabs.info/advisories/?id=86
# Script: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultralightforum/files/
# Tested: Win 7

Description :
Ultra Light Forum developed in PHP and MySQL as a standalone forum with high speed, high user-friendliness. 
User can create, delete topic, can reply to others topic. 
The forum also comes with poll, where user can vote. To know more try UL Forum.

Proof of Concept :
Choose profile settings, and put the messages box with 
<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
And update your profile
So if any user can view you profile, the script will be execute

Demo:
http://bastardlabs.info/demo/ultraforum1.png
http://bastardlabs.info/demo/ultraforum2.png