Invision Power Board HTML Injection Vulnerability

BID:12888

Info

Invision Power Board HTML Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12888
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2005-0886
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 23 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 11:56AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Woody <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0.2
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0.1
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0 PF2
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0 PF1
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0 PDR3
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0 Alpha 3
Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.3.1 Final
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.3 Final
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.3
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.3
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.2
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.1.2
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.1.1
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.0.1
Invision Power Services Invision Board 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Invision Power Board HTML Injection Vulnerability

Invision Power Board is reported prone to an HTML injection vulnerability. This issue arises due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data.

It is reported that due to a lack of filtering of HTML tags, an attacker can inject an IFRAME through an HTTP POST request.

All version of Invision Power Board are considered vulnerable at the moment.

This BID will be updated when more information is available.

Exploit / POC

Invision Power Board HTML Injection Vulnerability

An exploit is not required to leverage this issue.

The following proof of concept is available:

&lt;iframe id="frame1" name="frame1" frameborder=0 width=0 height=0
src="http://www.example.com/forums/index.php?act=Msg&amp;CODE=04&amp;MODE=1&amp;entered_name=Woody&amp;msg_title=hi&amp;Post=I%20love%20you!"&gt;
&lt;/iframe&gt;

Solution / Fix

Invision Power Board HTML Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

Invision Power Board HTML Injection Vulnerability

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