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TITLE:
freeForum Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31349

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31349/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
freeForum 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/6210/

DESCRIPTION:
ahmadbady has discovered a vulnerability in freeForum, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed via the query string in 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.

Successful exploitation requires that the target uses a browser that
does not URL encode requests.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.7. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
ahmadbady

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30509/info

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