WP Forum Server <= 1.7.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2012-6622
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published May 15, 2012
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Heine Pedersen, Torben Jensen
Description

The WP Forum Server plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the (1) groupid parameter in an editgroup action or (2) usergroup_id parameter in an edit_usergroup action in versions up to, and including, 1.7.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative capabilities to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This can also be exploited via CSRF by unauthenticated users due to missing nonce validation.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug forum-server (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.3
Patched Version
  • 1.7.4
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