Discourse · Report #197902
Stored XSS in topics because of whitelisted_generic engine vulnerability
Validstatus
highseverity
13upvotes
20 Jan 2017disclosed
How it was found
Hello!
Steps to reproduce:
- Paste this payload URL in the topic: http://89.223.28.48/og_image.html?uncache1234
- Save the post and you will see the XSS will fire {F151911}
Though you now escape the OpenGraph data, the whitelisted_generic onebox engine decodes variables values back at lines: 202 and 207. Then these decoded values are injected in the raw HTML here and here that leads to XSS attack possibility.
Example post with stored XSS inside is: https://try.discourse.org/t/testing-is-in-progress/620 Please let me know if you need some extra information to locate and fix the bug.