dotNetBB Forums dotNetBB Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	17246
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 27 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Mar 27 2006 10:14PM
Credit:	r0t is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	dotNetBB Forums dotNetBB 2.42EC SP 3
Not Vulnerable:

dotNetBB Forums dotNetBB Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

dotNetBB 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 help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

dotNetBB Forums dotNetBB Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited through a web client.

dotNetBB Forums dotNetBB Cross-Site Scripting 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]:[email protected]

dotNetBB Forums dotNetBB Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• XSS vuln. in dotNetBB <= v2.4 (rakstija r0t)
  
• dotNetBB (dotNetBB Forums)