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Simple Machines Forum "X-Forwarded-For" Script Insertion
Secunia Advisory: SA19004
Release Date: 2006-02-24
Last Update: 2006-04-06
Popularity: 9,953 views

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

Software:Simple Machines Forum 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0896


Description:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu has reported a vulnerability in Simple Machines Forum, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to the "X-Forwarded-For" HTTP header isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in an administrator's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed via "View all members".

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.6. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.7.
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu

Changelog:
2006-03-02: Added CVE reference.
2006-04-06: Updated "Solution" section.

Original Advisory:
http://evuln.com/vulns/86/summary.html


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