Mephisto blog is vulnerable to XSS
Hello everyone!
Current bleeding-edge version of Mephisto blog is vulnerable to XSS.
Comment's author name accept javascript code. If admin approves/
rejects comments manually, he have to load all unapproved comments,
so it's possible to fetch his session id.
Example
Add new comment with the following author name: <script>alert
(document.cookie)</script>
Then from admin's overview section check this comment - you'll see
message with cookie.
If you manually approve your comments, check list of pending comments.
How to fix it
patch for <approot>/app/helpers/application_helper.rb :
5c5
< return comment.author if comment.author_url.blank?
---
> return h(comment.author) if comment.author_url.blank?
Best wishes!
Sergey Tikhonov