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Tumulus For Typepad Cross Site Scripting

🗓️ 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00Reported by MustLiveType 
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Tumulus widget for Typepad XSS vulnerability detail

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Affected products:  
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Vulnerable are all versions of widget Tumulus for Typepad.  
  
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Details:  
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This XSS is similar to XSS vulnerability in WP-Cumulus, because it's using  
tagcloud.swf made by author of WP-Cumulus. About such vulnerabilities I  
wrote in 2009-2011, particularly about millions of flash files tagcloud.swf  
which are vulnerable to XSS attacks I mentioned in my article XSS  
vulnerabilities in 34 millions flash files  
(http://lists.webappsec.org/pipermail/websecurity_lists.webappsec.org/2010-January/006033.html).  
  
XSS (WASC-08):  
  
http://site/path/tagcloud.swf?mode=tags&tagcloud=%3Ctags%3E%3Ca+href='javascript:alert(document.cookie)'+style='font-size:+40pt'%3EClick%20me%3C/a%3E%3C/tags%3E  
  
At his own site the author keeps file tagcloud-download.swf, which he  
recommends to rename on tagcloud.swf.  
  
Code will execute after click. It's strictly social XSS. Also it's possible  
to conduct (like in WP-Cumulus) HTML Injection attack.  
  
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Timeline:  
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2011.06.24 - disclosed at my site.  
2011.06.25 - informed developer.  
  
I mentioned about this vulnerability at my site  
(http://websecurity.com.ua/5240/).  
  
Best wishes & regards,  
MustLive  
Administrator of Websecurity web site  
http://websecurity.com.ua   
  
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26 Jun 2011 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4
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