Secunia Security Advisory - Christoph Jeschke has reported a vulnerability in PForum, allowing malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks. Input passed to the IRC Server and AIM ID fields is not sanitised before being stored in the user profile. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected website when a malicious profile is viewed. The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 1.26.
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TITLE:
PSCRIPT Forum User Profile Script Insertion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12317
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12317/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Powies PSCRIPT Forum 1.x (PForum)
http://secunia.com/product/3794/
DESCRIPTION:
Christoph Jeschke has reported a vulnerability in PForum, allowing
malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed to the "IRC Server" and "AIM ID" fields isn't sanitised
before being stored in the user profile. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected website when a malicious profile is viewed.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 1.26.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.26.
http://www.pscript.de/link/index.php?showcat=1
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Christoph Jeschke
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