TITLE:
PHP-Fusion "news_body" Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17312

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17312/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PHP-Fusion 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/5291/

DESCRIPTION:
peanut has discovered a vulnerability in PHP-Fusion, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to the "news_body" parameter in "submit.php" isn't
properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject
arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in an
administrator's browser session in context of an affected site when
the malicious news is viewed for approval.

This is related to vulnerability #1 in:
SA15830

Example:
</textarea><sc<script>ript>[code]</sc<script>ript>

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 6.00.204. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
peanut

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA15830:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15830/

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