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PunBB Two Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA16908
Release Date: 2005-09-22
Last Update: 2005-10-04
Popularity: 7,721 views

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

Software:PunBB 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-3078
CVE-2005-3079


Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in PunBB, where one has an unknown impact and the other can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Input passed via the "forgotten e-mail" feature 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 an affected site.

2) A potential code inclusion vulnerability in the user language selection has an unknown impact.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 1.2.7. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.2.8.
http://www.punbb.org/downloads.php

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Stefan Esser and Smartys.

Changelog:
2005-10-04: Added CVE references.


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