Description: insanity has reported two vulnerabilities in vBulletin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "prefs" and "navprefs" parameters in admincp/index.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in an administrative user's browser session in context of an affected site.
Solution: vBulletin 3.0.x:
Update to version 3.0.17.
vBulletin 3.5.x:
Update to version 3.5.7.
vBulletin 3.6.x:
Update to version 3.6.4.
Provided and/or discovered by: insanity
Changelog: 2006-11-22: Added CVE reference. Updated "Solution" section.
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