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Simple Machines Forum "HTML-Tag" Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA30955
Release Date: 2008-07-17
Popularity: 1,779 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Unknown
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Simple Machines Forum 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-3072
CVE-2008-3073


Description:
A vulnerability with an unknown impact has been reported in Simple Machines Forum.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within "the use of the html-tag".

Note: This also fixes an issue related to the random number generator seeding with PHP versions prior to 4.2.0.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.0.13 and 1.1.5.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.13 or 1.1.5.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Jessica Hope.

Original Advisory:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=236816.0


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