Secunia Security Advisory - insanity has reported two vulnerabilities in vBulletin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
vBulletin "prefs" / "navprefs" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23011
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23011/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
vBulletin 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/3212/
DESCRIPTION:
insanity has reported two vulnerabilities in vBulletin, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "prefs" and "navprefs" parameters in
admincp/index.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to
the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script
code in an administrative user's browser session in context of an
affected site.
SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends administrative users to not follow links from
untrusted sources.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
insanity
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