Podcast Generator version 2.7 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
44cd517cd983b6aa9682476b4f3d6a7eStored Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in Podcast Generator 2.7
Information
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Advisory by Netsparker
Name: Stored Cross-site scripting in Podcast Generator 2.7
Affected Software: Podcast Generator
Affected Versions: 2.7
Homepage: http://www.podcastgenerator.net/
Vulnerability: Stored Cross-site scripting
Severity: Medium
Status: Fixed
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20121
CVSS Score (3.0): CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Netsparker Advisory Reference: NS-18-051
Technical Details
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URL: http://{DOMAIN}/{PATH-OF-PODCAST}/?p=admin&do=categories&action=add
Parameter Name: addcategory
Parameter Type: POST
Attack Pattern: '"@--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x002E6C)</scRipt>
For more information on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities read the article Cross-site Scripting (XSS).
Advisory Timeline
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13th November 2018- First Contact
9th January 2019 - Vendor Fixed
25th January 2019 - Advisory Released
Credits & Authors
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These issues have been discovered by Zekvan Arslan while testing Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner.
About Netsparker
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