BoastMachine Admin.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	18012
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 17 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	May 17 2006 08:54PM
Credit:	Yunus Emre Yilmaz is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	BoastMachine BoastMachine 3.1
Not Vulnerable:

BoastMachine Admin.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


BoastMachine is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails 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.

BoastMachine 3.1 is reported to be vulnerable. Other versions may be affected as well.

BoastMachine Admin.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


This issue can be exploited through a web client.

A proof of concept is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/boastmachine_poc.txt

BoastMachine Admin.PHP 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]

BoastMachine Admin.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• boastMachine Homepage (boastMachine)
  
• Boastmachine Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability ([email protected])