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TITLE:
Phorum Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20843

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20843/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Phorum, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to certain parameters via the URL 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.

Example:
http://[host]/read.php?1,1[code]

Successful exploitation requires that the user is running a browser
that has not URL-encoded the request (e.g. Internet Explorer).

The vulnerability has been reported in version 5.1.13. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.1.14.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits JPCERT.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Phorum:
http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?12,113978

JVN:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2376207423/index.html

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