Cross-site scripting in wpForo Forum - CVE-2018-11709

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Cross-site scripting in wpForo Forum - CVE-2018-11709

Published: August 2, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19655
CSH Severity: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11709
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
wpForo Forum
Software vendor:
gVectors Team (A. Chakhoyan, R. Hovhannisyan)

Description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. The vulnerability allows Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the URI.

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

Update to version 1.4.12.

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