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Phorum Cross-Site Scripting and Local File Inclusion Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA21043  
Release Date: 2006-07-14
Last Update: 2006-07-24

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of sensitive information
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Phorum 5.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-3615 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Phorum, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, disclose sensitive information, and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Input passed to the "template" parameter in pm.php isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.

Example:
http://[host]/pm.php?1,page=1&template=[file]%00

Another unspecified parameter is reportedly also affected.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled and that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

This can further be exploited to include arbitrary PHP code injected into Apache web logs.

2) Input passed to the "mode" parameter in posting.php 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.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 5.1.14. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 5.1.15.
http://www.phorum.org/downloads.php

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) rgod
Additional information provided by the vendor.

2) Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2006-07-24: 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 Vulnerability
5. Phorum "forum_ids[]" SQL Injection Vulnerability
6. Phorum "Username" Script Insertion 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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