Secunia Security Advisory - Two weaknesses and two vulnerabilities have been reported in MyBB, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to enumerate usernames and conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
MyBB Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43937
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-04-05
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DESCRIPTION:
Two weaknesses and two vulnerabilities have been reported in MyBB,
which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion
attacks and by malicious people to enumerate usernames and conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.
1) The script xmlhttp.php (when "action" is set to
"username_availability" or "username_exists") returns different
messages depending on the existence of the provided username. This
can be exploited to enumerate valid usernames.
2) Input passed via the "value" parameter to xmlhttp.php (when
"action" is set to "username_exists") is not properly sanitised
before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site.
3) Input passed via thread subjects is not properly sanitised before
being displayed to the user when certain actions are performed. This
can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will
be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site
when the malicious data is being viewed.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires HTML in posts
to be enabled.
The weaknesses and the vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior
to 1.6.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.6.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1, 2) MustLive
3) The vendor credits Max Roth.
The vendor also credits MattRogowski.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MyBB:
http://blog.mybb.com/2011/02/22/mybb-1-6-2-and-1-4-15-security-update/
MustLive:
http://websecurity.com.ua/4925/
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