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Phorum "Username" Script Insertion Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA16667  
Release Date: 2005-09-02
Last Update: 2005-09-28

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Phorum 5.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-2836 (Secunia mirror)

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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:
http://phorum.org/downloads/phorum-5.0.18.tar.gz

Provided and/or discovered by:
Scott Dewey

Changelog:
2005-09-28: Added CVE reference.



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10 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Phorum Non-Fulltext Search SQL Injection Vulnerability
2. Phorum Multiple Vulnerabilities
3. Phorum "admin.php" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
4. Phorum Cross-Site Scripting and Local File Inclusion
5. Phorum Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
6. Phorum "forum_ids[]" SQL Injection Vulnerability
7. phorum "body" Parameter HTTP Response Splitting
8. Phorum Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
9. Phorum "follow.php" SQL Injection Vulnerability
10. Phorum Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection


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