CVE-2013-0234
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | {"endIncluding":"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 | |
References
- http://blog.elgg.org/pg/blog/cash/read/223/elgg-1813-and-1717
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119903/Elgg-Twitter-Widget-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/251
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52007
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57569
- https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/19dc507c2fccb378be2a44a762edf6c1e7afa334#L0R11
- https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/a74a88501c41e89c8bcd7fc650ae2f8cc0a5003d#L2L21
- http://blog.elgg.org/pg/blog/cash/read/223/elgg-1813-and-1717
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119903/Elgg-Twitter-Widget-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/251
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52007
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57569
- https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/19dc507c2fccb378be2a44a762edf6c1e7afa334#L0R11
- https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/a74a88501c41e89c8bcd7fc650ae2f8cc0a5003d#L2L21
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.