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TITLE:
Snitz Forums 2000 "sortorder" Parameter Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21946

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21946/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Snitz Forums 2000 3.4.x
http://secunia.com/product/1483/

DESCRIPTION:
ajann has reported a vulnerability in Snitz Forums 2000, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the "sortorder" parameter in forum.asp isn't 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.

Example:
http://[host]/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=1&ARCHIVE=true&sortfield=lastpost&sortorder=[code]

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.4.06.
http://forum.snitz.com/download.asp

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
ajann

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=62773

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