ID:3973 - Exploit for Cross-site scripting in XOOPS - CVE-2012-0984

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ID:3973 - Exploit for Cross-site scripting in XOOPS - CVE-2012-0984

Published: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41341
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0984
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Vulnerable software:
XOOPS

Link to public exploit:


Vulnerability description

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in XOOPS before 2.5.5 when processing the (1) to_userid parameter to modules/pm/pmlite.php or the (2) current_file, (3) imgcat_id, or (4) target parameter to class/xoopseditor/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/xoopsimagemanager/xoopsimagebrowser.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.