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TITLE:
Invision Power Board BBCodes Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29055

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29055/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Invision Power Board 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3705/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Invision Power Board, which can
be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed via custom BBCodes is not properly sanitised before
being stored. 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 a malicious post is viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.3.4 prior to 2008-02-20.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.4 after 2008-02-20 or apply the vendor patch.
http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=16288

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=269961

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