ReviewBoard Commenting System Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	50681
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2011-4312
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Nov 15 2011 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 13 2015 10:24PM
Credit:	Jan Lieskovsky
Vulnerable:	Review Board Review Board 1.6.3 Review Board Review Board 1.5.7
Not Vulnerable:

ReviewBoard Commenting System Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

ReviewBoard is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

ReviewBoard Commenting System Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting user to follow a malicious URI.

ReviewBoard Commenting System Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.

ReviewBoard Commenting System Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Reviewboard Homepage (Reviewboard)
  
• Bug 754126 - ReviewBoard: XSS in the commenting system (diff viewer and screensh (Jan Lieskovsky )
  
• New Review Board Security Releases: 1.5.7 and 1.6.3 (Review Board)
  
• Review Board 1.6.3 Release Notes (Review Board)