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Invision Power Board Profile Updating Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA25637
Release Date: 2007-06-12
Last Update: 2007-06-15
Popularity: 6,426 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Invision Power Board 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-3219


Description:
A security issue has been reported in Invision Power Board, which can be exploited by malicious users to manipulate certain data.

The problem is caused due to an error within sources/action_public/xmlout.php and can be exploited to e.g. change another user's AIM or Yahoo! identity.

The security issue is reported in Invision Power Board 2.2.0 through 2.2.2.

Solution:
Update to version 2.3.0.

Apply fix:
http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=235316

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits "iMMENSE".

Changelog:
2007-06-14: Updated "Solution" and "Original Advisory" sections.
2007-06-15: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=235316
http://forums.invisionpower.com/index...mp;bug_title_id=5667&bug_cat_id=3


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