WWWBoard HTML Injection Vulnerability

BID:6918

Info

WWWBoard HTML Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 6918
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 23 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 23 2003 12:00AM
Credit: The discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to "Grégory" Le Bras <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Matt Wright WWWBoard 2.0 Alpha 2.1
Matt Wright WWWBoard 2.0 Alpha 2
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

WWWBoard HTML Injection Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been discovered in WWWBoard version 2.0A2.1 and earlier. Due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied forum input, attackers may embed malicious script code or HTML into forum posts.

When a malicious post is viewed by another user, the attacker-supplied code will be interpreted in their web browser in the security context of the site hosting the software.

Exploit / POC

WWWBoard HTML Injection Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

WWWBoard HTML Injection 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] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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WWWBoard HTML Injection Vulnerability

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