CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-0234
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-02-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Twitter widget in Elgg before 1.7.17 and 1.8.x before 1.8.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the params[twitter_username] parameter to action/widgets/save.
Affected configurations
• elgg elgg 1.8.0.1
• elgg elgg 1.8.1
• elgg elgg 1.8.3
• elgg elgg 1.8.4
• elgg elgg 1.8.5
• elgg elgg 1.8.6
• elgg elgg 1.8.7
• elgg elgg 1.8.8
• elgg elgg 1.8.9
• elgg elgg 1.8.10
• elgg elgg 1.8.11
• elgg elgg 1.8.12
• elgg elgg (<= 1.7.16)
• elgg elgg 1.7.0
• elgg elgg 1.7.1
• elgg elgg 1.7.2
• elgg elgg 1.7.3
• elgg elgg 1.7.4
• elgg elgg 1.7.5
• elgg elgg 1.7.6
• elgg elgg 1.7.7
• elgg elgg 1.7.8
• elgg elgg 1.7.9
• elgg elgg 1.7.10
• elgg elgg 1.7.11
• elgg elgg 1.7.12
• elgg elgg 1.7.13
• elgg elgg 1.7.14
• elgg elgg 1.7.15
• elgg elgg 1.7.18
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://blog.elgg.org/pg/blog/cash/read/223/elgg-1813-and-1717 blog.elgg.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119903/Elgg-Twitter-Widget-Cross-Site-Scripting.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/251 seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52007 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57569 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/19dc507c2fccb378be2a44a762edf6c1e7afa334#L0R11 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/a74a88501c41e89c8bcd7fc650ae2f8cc0a5003d#L2L21 github.com
- http://blog.elgg.org/pg/blog/cash/read/223/elgg-1813-and-1717 blog.elgg.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119903/Elgg-Twitter-Widget-Cross-Site-Scripting.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/251 seclists.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52007 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57569 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/19dc507c2fccb378be2a44a762edf6c1e7afa334#L0R11 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/a74a88501c41e89c8bcd7fc650ae2f8cc0a5003d#L2L21 github.com