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TITLE:
Geeklog Forum Plugin Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42915

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http://secunia.com/advisories/42915/
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-01-18

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Forum plugin for Geeklog,
which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion
attacks.

Certain unspecified parameters passed via BBcode tags is not properly
sanitised before being used. 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.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.7.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.7.4.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Saif El-Shere.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/forum-2.7.4

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