Vulnerability: Wordpress plugin Buddypress <= 1.9.1 stored xss

Date: 13/02/2014

Author: Pietro Oliva

Vendor Homepage: http://buddypress.org

Software Link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.9.1.zip

Version: 1.9.1

CVE : [CVE-2014-1888]

Responsibly disclosed and patched in version 1.9.2

During the group creation process in Buddypress it's possible to
inject javascript code into the name field in the form at
http://example.com/groups/create/step/group-details/ as for instance:
name" onmouseover="alert('xss').

To test this vulnerability you have reproduce the following steps:

1) create a group named as follows: name" onmouseover="alert('xss')
2) visiting this
url:http://example.com/groups/create/step/group-details/ causes the
alert to show on mouse over the group name field

-Pietro Oliva-