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phpBB Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13239
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Release Date:
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2004-11-19
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Last Update:
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2005-01-03
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
Manipulation of data
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | phpBB 2.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2004-1315 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpBB, which can be exploited by malicious people to execute arbitrary commands, conduct SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks.
1) The "highlight" parameter in "viewtopic.php" is not properly sanitised when it is decoded. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable server.
2) Input passed to the username handling isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.
3) Other input passed to the username handling isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can potentially be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 2.0.11.
Solution:
Update to version 2.0.11.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7885
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) How Dark
2) AnthraX101
3) warmth
Changelog:
2004-11-22: Added information about impact of the first vulnerability.
2004-12-22: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.
2005-01-03: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=240636
Other References:
US-CERT VU#497400:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/497400
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