CVE-2013-0234

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Twitter widget in Elgg before 1.7.17 and 1.8.x before 1.8.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the params[twitter_username] parameter to action/widgets/save.

Affected products

Elgg: through 1.7.16; 1.8.0.1, 1.8.1, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.6 (+23)

References

http://blog.elgg.org/pg/blog/cash/read/223/elgg-1813-and-1717
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119903/Elgg-Twitter-Widget-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/251
http://secunia.com/advisories/52007
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/29/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57569
https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/19dc507c2fccb378be2a44a762edf6c1e7afa334#L0R11
https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/commit/a74a88501c41e89c8bcd7fc650ae2f8cc0a5003d#L2L21
http://blog.elgg.org/pg/blog/cash/read/223/elgg-1813-and-1717
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119903/Elgg-Twitter-Widget-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/251
http://secunia.com/advisories/52007

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