Secunia Security Advisory - Joren McReynolds has discovered some vulnerabilities in Akiva WebBoard, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.
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TITLE:
Akiva WebBoard Script Insertion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29091
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29091/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Akiva WebBoard 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/18130/
DESCRIPTION:
Joren McReynolds has discovered some vulnerabilities in Akiva
WebBoard, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script
insertion attacks.
Input passed via form field parameters when updating the profile page
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
profile data is viewed.
Successful exploitation requires valid user credentials
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 8.0. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to the application.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joren McReynolds of Websense Security Labs
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