Tapatalk Multiple Plugins "referer" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been discovered in multiple Tapatalk plugins, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "referer" GET parameter to /mobiquo/smartbanner/welcome.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerability is confirmed in the following products:
* Tapatalk Plugin for bbPress 2.0 Series version 1.2.2
* Tapatalk Plugin for IP.Board 3.4 Series and Above version 3.9.0
* Tapatalk Plugin for Kunena 3 version 1.1.4
* Tapatalk Plugin for MyBB 1.6 version 3.9.0
* Tapatalk Plugin for phpBB 3.0 Series version 4.4.0
* Tapatalk Plugin for Simple Machines Forum 2.0.x version 3.9.3
* Tapatalk Plugin for Vanilla 2.0 version 1.4.1
* Tapatalk Plugin for Woltlab Burning Board 4.0 version 1.0.0
* Tapatalk Plugin for xenForo 1.x version 2.0.3
* Tapatalk Plugin for vBulletin 3.7.x / 3.8.x version 4.4.0
* Tapatalk Plugin for vBulletin 4.x version 5.0.0
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
bbPress Tapatalk Plugin 1.xTapatalk API Plugin 3.x (module for IP.Board)Tapatalk Kunena Plugin 1.x (component for Joomla!)Tapatalk Plugin 1.x (module for Woltlab Burning Board)Tapatalk Plugin 3.x (mod for Simple Machines Forum)Tapatalk Plugin 3.x (plugin for MyBB)Tapatalk Plugin 4.x (module for phpBB)Tapatalk Plugin 4.x (plugin for vBulletin 3.7.x / 3.8.x)Tapatalk Plugin 5.x (plugin for vBulletin 4.x)Vanilla Forums Tapatalk Plugin 1.xXenForo Tapatalk Plugin 2.x
     
Solution   No official solution is currently available.
     
CVE  
     
References   http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/126367/Tapatalk-Forum-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2014-05-05 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote