Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in FunkBoard, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
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TITLE:
FunkBoard "name" Script Insertion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22720
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22720/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
FunkBoard 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5506/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in FunkBoard, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input to the "name" parameter in profile.php is not properly
sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert
arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user's browser
session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is
viewed.
The vulnerability is reported in version 0.71 when downloaded before
4th of November 2006 at 18:16 GMT. Prior versions may also be
affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to a version 0.71 downloaded after 4th of November 2006 at
18:16 GMT.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.funkboard.co.uk/forum/thread.php?id=312
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