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PunBB Two Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16908
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Release Date:
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2005-09-22
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Last Update:
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2005-10-04
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Popularity:
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7,721 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Unknown
Cross Site Scripting
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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: | PunBB 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-3078
CVE-2005-3079
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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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