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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:

  1. Paste this payload URL in the topic: http://89.223.28.48/og_image.html?uncache1234
  2. 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.

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