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Secunia Advisory SA29378

Invision Power Board Nested BBCodes Script Insertion
Secunia Advisory SA29378
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2008-03-14
Last Update 2008-03-19
   
Popularity 11,648 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Cross Site Scripting
Where From remote
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Software:
Invision Power Board 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-1359 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

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.


Solution
Update to version 2.3.4 downloaded after 2008-03-12.
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The vendor credits criticalsecurity.net.

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Original Advisory
http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=270637

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