[29595] in bugtraq
Phorum 3.4 Cross Site Scripting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter "Stöckli)
Wed Apr 2 16:13:15 2003
Date: 2 Apr 2003 13:19:44 -0000
Message-ID: <20030402131944.18760.qmail@www.securityfocus.com>
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From: Peter "Stöckli" <pcs@pcsmedia.net>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Description:
It is possible to insert javascript code in a message and execute it.
1.) go to a phorum
2.) click on new topic
3.) enter any name
4.) enter any email
5.) enter a title in the way like this "><script>alert
("Vulnerable");</script>
6.) enter any text
7.) click the preview button
8.) click the send button on the top of the page
Solution:
Edit the source code to strip malicious characters from title or escape
malicious characters using addslashes().
