Invision Power Board Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

vendor:

Invision Power Board

by:

SecurityFocus

3.3

CVSS

MEDIUM

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: Invision Power Board

Affected Version From: 1.0.3

Affected Version To: 1.x

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2005

Invision Power Board Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Invision Power Board is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Mitigation:

Input validation and output encoding should be used to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14492/info

Invision Power Board is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

This issue is reported to affect Invision Power Board 1.0.3; other 1.x versions of the application may also be affected. However, the 2.x versions of the application are reported not vulnerable to this issue. 

<html>
<body>
<script>alert('Css found By V[i]RuS');</script>
</body>
</html>