BBpress BB-Login.PHP Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

TITLE: BBpress BB-Login.PHP Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
CLASS: Input Validation Error
CVE:
REMOTE: Yes
LOCAL: No
PUBLISHED: Jun 11 2007 12:00AM
UPDATE: Jun 12 2007 05:39PM
CREDIT: Ory Segal is credited with discovering this issue.
VULNERABLE:

BBPress BBPress 0.8.1

NOT VULNERABLE:

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Discussion

BBpress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

Exploiting this vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks on unsuspecting users in the context of the affected website. As a result, the attacker may be able to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

Exploit

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim into following a malicious URI.

A sample exploit has been provided:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/24422.html

Solution

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor fixes for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: mailto:vuldb@securityfocus.com.

References

References:

• BBPress Web Site (BBPress)
  
• BBpress XSS vulnerability (Dragos Lungu Dot Com)
  

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