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TITLE:
phorum "body" Parameter HTTP Response Splitting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14680

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14680/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Phorum 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4144/

DESCRIPTION:
Positive Technologies has reported a vulnerability in phorum, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the "body" parameter is not properly sanitised. This
can be exploited to inject malicious characters into HTTP headers and
may allow execution of arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 5.0.14 and 5.0.14a.
Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.0.15a:
http://phorum.org/downloads/phorum-5.0.15a.tar.gz

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Positive Technologies

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