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TITLE
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Dexs PM System - Authenticated Persistent Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
AUTHOR
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TheXero
DATE
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10/14/2013
VENDOR
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Sam Brishes - http://www.pytes.net/
AFFECTED PRODUCT
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Dexs PM System Wordpress Plugin Version 1.0.1 possibly earlier
VULNERABILITY CLASS
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Cross-Site Scripting
DESCRIPTION
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Dexs PM System suffers from a persistent Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability
when sending a message as an authenticated user. An account of at least
subscriber status is requested to exploit this vulnerability.
This vulnerability exists due to a lack of input validation and output
sanitization of the subject paramater.
PROOF OF CONCEPT
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Enter the following into the subject field when sending a message to another
user.
--- SNIP ---
XSS<script>alert('xss');</script>
--- SNIP ---
If the message has been sent successfully a alert diolog will apear containing
xss when an user checks there message in the dashboard.
IMPACT
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An attacker could potentially hijack session authentication tokes of remote
users and leverage the vulnerability to increase the attack vector to the
underlying software and operating system of the victim.
THREAT LEVEL
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High
STATUS
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0day
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