WordPress WP Forum Server Two Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


Description   Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WP Forum Server plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "groupid" parameter in wp-admin/admin.php (when "page" is set to "forum-server/fs-admin/fs-admin.php", "vasthtml_action" is set to "structure", and "do" is set to "editgroup") and "usergroup_id" in wp-admin/admin.php (when "page" is set to "forum-server/fs-admin/fs-admin.php", "vasthtml_action" is set to "usergroups", and "do" is set to "edit_usergroup") 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 vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.7.3 and confirmed in version 1.6.9. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
WordPress WP Forum Server Plugin 1.x
     
Solution   Update to version 1.7.4.
     
CVE  
     
References   http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/112703/WordPress-WP-Forum-Server-1.7.3-SQL-Injection-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
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 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2012-05-15 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote