# Exploit Title: Joomla Plugin Easydiscuss <4.0.21 Persistent XSS in Edit Message# Date: 06-01-2018# Software Link: https://stackideas.com/easydiscuss# Exploit Author: Mattia Furlani# CVE: CVE-2018-5263# Category: webapps1. Description
Whenever a user edits a message with<\textarea> inside the body, everything after the <\textarea> will be executed in the user’s browser. Works with every version up to 4.0.202. Proof of Concept
Login with permissions to post a message, insert <\textarea>in the body and add any html code after that, whenever a user tries to edit that message the code writed after you closed the textarea will be executed
3. Solution:
Update to version 4.0.21
https://stackideas.com/blog/easydiscuss4021-update