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WoltLab Burning Board Lite "userid" Cross-Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA13782
Release Date: 2005-01-11
Last Update: 2005-02-07
Popularity: 7,339 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:WoltLab Burning Board Lite 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-0216


Description:
drhankey has reported a vulnerability in Burning Board Lite, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "userid" parameter in "formmail.php" 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.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1e. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by:
drhankey

Changelog:
2005-02-07: Added CVE reference.


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