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Invision Power Board Nested BBCodes Script Insertion
Secunia Advisory: SA29378
Release Date: 2008-03-14
Last Update: 2008-03-19
Popularity: 8,740 views

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

Software:Invision Power Board 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Invision Power Board, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed as nested custom BBCodes is not properly sanitised before being stored. This can be exploited to insert intrinsic events with arbitrary JavaScript code, which is executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.3.4 downloaded before 2008-03-13. Other versions may also be affected.

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