The Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored…

Why it is Yellow

• CVSS 6.4 medium

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-discussion-board/tags/2.6.0/includes/functions/functions-skins.php#L43
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-discussion-board/tags/2.6.0/includes/functions/functions-user.php#L83
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-discussion-board/tags/2.6.0/includes/functions/functions-user.php#L92
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3761217/wp-discussion-board/trunk/includes/functions/functions-user.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5dbb177e-3cf8-48fe-9660-999c177cbeb5?source=cve

Original description

The Discussion Board – WordPress Forum Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.6.0 via the user profile Website (user_url) field. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the ctdb_filter_comment_author_name() callback hooked to get_comment_author_link, which interpolates the raw user_url value into a single-quoted href attribute without esc_url() or esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses a Discussion Board topic containing the attacker's reply.