Simplemachines SMF up to 2.0 ManageNews.php EditNews cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Simplemachines SMF and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function EditNews of the file ManageNews.php. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-1129. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability has been found in Simplemachines SMF and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function EditNews of the file ManageNews.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the EditNews function in ManageNews.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) before 1.1.13, and 2.x before 2.0 RC5, might allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a save_items action.

The weakness was shared 06/20/2011 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at simplemachines.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2011-1129 since 03/02/2011. The attack can be launched remotely. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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Upgrading to version 1.1.11 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-57741, VDB-57740, VDB-57738 and VDB-57737 are related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Simplemachines

Name

• SMF

Version

• 1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15
• 1.0.16
• 1.0.17
• 1.0.18
• 1.0.19
• 1.0.20
• 1.0.21
• 1.1
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.5
• 1.1.6
• 1.1.7
• 1.1.8
• 1.1.9
• 1.1.10
• 1.1.11
• 1.1.12
• 2.0

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