Vanilla About Me Plugin Persistant XSS Vulnerability

vendor:

Vanilla

by:

Henry Hoggard

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

Persistant XSS

CWE

Product Name: Vanilla

Affected Version From: Vanilla Version 2.0.18.4

Affected Version To: About Me 1.1.1

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: vanillaforums.org/addon/aboutme-plugin

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Web

2012

Vanilla About Me Plugin Persistant XSS Vulnerability

Go to http://target.tld/index.php?p=/profile/editme/4/testmember and post your XSS in any of the text fields. Then if a user visits your about me page (http://target.tld/index.php?p=/profile/aboutme/4/testmember) the script will execute.

Mitigation:

Ensure that user input is properly sanitized and validated before being used in the application.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Title: Vanilla About Me Plugin Persistant XSS Vulnerability
# Date: 18/5/12
# Author: Henry Hoggard
# Author URL: henryhoggard.co.uk
# Author Twitter: @henryhoggard
# Software: Vanilla Version 2.0.18.4 + About Me 1.1.1
# http://vanillaforums.org/addon/aboutme-plugin
# http://http://vanillaforums.org
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Go to http://target.tld/index.php?p=/profile/editme/4/testmember

Post your XSS In any of the text fields, for this we used the Real Name Field and the following XSS

XSS:
<script>alert('x')</script>

Then if a user visits your about me page (http://target.tld/index.php?p=/profile/aboutme/4/testmember) the script will execute

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http://henryhoggard.co.uk