PT-2014-2437 · Elgg · Elgg

Mrclay · Published 2014-02-02 · Updated 2014-02-21 · CVE-2013-0234

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elgg versions prior to 1.7.17 Elgg versions 1.8.x prior to 1.8.13

Description A cross-site scripting issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This is achieved via the params[twitter username] parameter to the "action/widgets/save" endpoint.

Recommendations For Elgg versions prior to 1.7.17, update to version 1.7.17 or later. For Elgg versions 1.8.x prior to 1.8.13, update to version 1.8.13 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-0234

Affected Products

Elgg

References · 9

• 🔥 https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/19dc507c2fccb378be2a44a762edf6c1e7afa334#L0R11 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0234 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52007 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/a74a88501c41e89c8bcd7fc650ae2f8cc0a5003d#L2L21 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/4 · Note
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119903/Elgg-Twitter-Widget-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/251 · Note
• http://blog.elgg.org/pg/blog/cash/read/223/elgg-1813-and-1717 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/57569 · Note