AxentForum viewposts.cfm Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	18473
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 29 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 16 2006 11:01PM
Credit:	Turkish hacker is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Axent Production Axent Forum I 0 Axent Production Axent Forum II
Not Vulnerable:

AxentForum viewposts.cfm Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

aXentForum 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 and HTML code execute 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.

AxentForum viewposts.cfm Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited through a web client.

AxentForum viewposts.cfm 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]

AxentForum viewposts.cfm Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Axent Forum Website ()
  
• aXentForum II XSS vuLLn ([email protected])