Invision Power Board PM Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	17187
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 22 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Mar 22 2006 07:14PM
Credit:	The vendor disclosed this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.1.5 + Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.1 Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.1 Alpha2 Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.1 + Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.1
Not Vulnerable:

Invision Power Board PM Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Invision Power Board 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.

Invision Power Board PM Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


This issue can be exploited through a web client.

Invision Power Board PM Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released version 2.1.5 2006.03.08 to address this issue; please contact the vendor for updates.

Invision Power Board PM Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Invision Board Homepage (Invision Power Services)
  
• IPB 2.1.x Security Update (03-08-06) (Invision Power Services)