Mingle Forum <= 1.0.33 - Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.33.2
- Affected Plugin
- Mingle Forum
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.33- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Mingle Forum WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.33. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.33.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed May 2012, reported by Heine Pedersen.
Vulnerability Overview
The Mingle Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting via several parameters in versions up to, and including, 1.0.33 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Mingle Forum <= 1.0.33 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Mingle Forum the fix is 1.0.33.2: builds <= 1.0.33 are affected, anything from 1.0.33.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.33.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Mingle Forum: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Mingle Forum 1.0.33.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
Related records
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Other vulnerabilities in Mingle Forum
- 9.8CVE-2013-0735: Mingle Forum <= 1.0.33.3 SQL Injection
CVE-2013-0735 - 8.8Mingle Forum < 1.0.34 SQL Injection
- 8.8CVE-2012-5327: Mingle Forum <= 1.0.32.1 SQL Injection
CVE-2012-5327 - 8.8CVE-2012-5328: Mingle Forum <= 1.0.32.1 SQL Injection
CVE-2012-5328 - 8.8CVE-2013-0736: Mingle Forum <= 1.0.34 Cross-Site Request Forgery
CVE-2013-0736
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