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Phorum "Username" Script Insertion Vulnerability
Release Date: 2005-09-02 Last Update: 2005-09-28 Views: 10,271
Secunia Advisory SA16667
Where:
From remote
Impact:
Cross Site Scripting,
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch
CVE Reference(s):
Description
Scott Dewey has reported a vulnerability in Phorum, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed to the "Username" field in "register.php" isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 5.0.17a and prior.
Solution:
Update to version 5.0.18:
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers
Provided and/or discovered by:
Scott Dewey
Deep Links:
Links available to Secunia VIM customers
Do you have additional information related to this advisory?
Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com
Subject: Phorum "Username" Script Insertion Vulnerability
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