YaBB Remote UsersRecentPosts Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:12756

Info

YaBB Remote UsersRecentPosts Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12756
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2005-0785
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 08 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 10:56AM
Credit: trueend5 is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: YaBB YaBB 2.0 RC1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

YaBB Remote UsersRecentPosts Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A remote cross-site scripting vulnerability affects YaBB. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input prior to including it in dynamically generated Web content.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Exploit / POC

YaBB Remote UsersRecentPosts Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue. The following proof of concepts have been provided:

http://www.example.com/YaBB.pl?action=usersrecentposts;username=<IFRAME%20SRC%3Djavascript:alert('PersianHacker.NET-XSS')><%252FIFRAME>
http://wordforlife.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=usersrecentposts;username=<IFRAME%20SRC%3Djavascript:alert('PersianHacker.NET-XSS')><%252FIFRAME>
http://yabbtest.spikecity.net/cgi-bin/SP2/YaBB.pl?action=usersrecentposts;username=<IFRAME%20SRC%3Djavascript:alert('PersianHacker.NET-XSS')><%252FIFRAME>

Solution / Fix

YaBB Remote UsersRecentPosts Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released updates to address this vulnerability. The vendor suggests that customers upgrade to the latest development version: 'YaBB 2, March 14th (031405)'.


YaBB YaBB 2.0 RC1

References

YaBB Remote UsersRecentPosts Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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