CVE-2013-0734

Mingle Forum <= 1.0.33.3 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2013-02-20 00:00
Charlie Eriksen

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.0.34
Affected Plugin
Mingle Forum
Affected Version
<= 1.0.33.3
CVSS
7.2High
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2013-0734
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At a glance

CVE-2013-0734 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Mingle Forum WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.0.33.3. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.34; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2013, reported by Charlie Eriksen.

Vulnerability Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Mingle Forum plugin before 1.0.34 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) search_words parameter in a search action to wpf.class.php or (2) togroupusers parameter in an add_user_togroup action to fs-admin/fs-admin.php.

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, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in Mingle Forum <= 1.0.33.3 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 1.0.34: builds <= 1.0.33.3 are affected, anything from 1.0.34 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.0.34, 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 1.0.34 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-0734https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc8e2042-93aa-454a-97b7-283d8a22bf46https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0734

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