PunBB Forgotten Email Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	14900
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Sep 22 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Sep 22 2005 12:00AM
Credit:	The vendor credits Stefan Esser of the Hardened-PHP Project for the discovery of this vulnerability. The vendor announced this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	PunBB PunBB 1.2.7 PunBB PunBB 1.2.6 PunBB PunBB 1.2.5 PunBB PunBB 1.2.4 PunBB PunBB 1.2.3 PunBB PunBB 1.2.2 PunBB PunBB 1.2.1
Not Vulnerable:	PunBB PunBB 1.2.8

PunBB Forgotten Email Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

PunBB is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

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

PunBB Forgotten Email Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

PunBB Forgotten Email Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has addressed this issue in PunBB version 1.2.8:


PunBB PunBB 1.2.1

• PunBB punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz
  http://www.punbb.org/download/punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz

PunBB PunBB 1.2.2

• PunBB punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz
  http://www.punbb.org/download/punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz

PunBB PunBB 1.2.3

• PunBB punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz
  http://www.punbb.org/download/punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz

PunBB PunBB 1.2.4

• PunBB punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz
  http://www.punbb.org/download/punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz

PunBB PunBB 1.2.5

• PunBB punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz
  http://www.punbb.org/download/punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz

PunBB PunBB 1.2.6

• PunBB punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz
  http://www.punbb.org/download/punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz

PunBB PunBB 1.2.7

• PunBB punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz
  http://www.punbb.org/download/punbb-1.2.8.tar.gz

PunBB Forgotten Email Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Changelog 1.2.7 to 1.2.8 (PunBB)
  
• PunBB Homepage (PunBB)