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HistoryAug 05, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

Community Server - Stored Cross-Site Scripting in User's Signature

2011-08-0500:00:00
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Community Server - Stored Cross-site Scripting in user's signature.

  • Product description:
    Community Server is a communities and collaboration web application
    developed by Telligent.
    It uses ASP.NET platform (C#) and Microsoft SQL Server database. From
    it's 5.0 version, the software was renamed to Telligent Community.

  • Vulnerability Details:
    It is possible to insert scripts (Cross-site Scripting) in user's
    signature, using BBCode Tag's processing errors.

  • Proof of Concept:
    Set an user's signature to:

[img]invalid.jpg[url= onerror=alert(1) z=] a[/url][/img]

An alert will be show in every topic the user posts in and also in its profile.

  • Affected Versions:
    Community Server 2007
    (may affect others)

  • Unaffected Versions:
    Telligent Community 5.x or earlier

  • Timeline:
    [05/25/10] Vulnerability details sent to address for security related
    contacts present at company's website, although the address did not
    exist.
    [05/26/10] Ticket opened asking for contact to send off vulnerability details.
    [05/26/10] Ticket's answer received, containing e-mail for the sending
    of vulnerability details.
    [05/26/10]Vulnerability details sent.
    [05/26/10] Answer received informing that vulnerability did not exist
    on latest versions of the product.
    [07/15/11] Advisory published.

  • Credits:
    PontoSec - Seguranca da Informacao < http://www.pontosec.com > -
    Researcher: Gabriel Lima (gabriel <at> pontosec.com)