Secunia Security Advisory - retard has discovered a vulnerability in textfileBB, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
textfileBB "messanger.php" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19149
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19149/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
textfileBB 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/8621/
DESCRIPTION:
retard has discovered a vulnerability in textfileBB, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "mess" and "user" parameter in "messanger.php" is
not 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.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.0. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
retard
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://notlegal.ws/advisories/textfilebbmessanger.txt
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