yMonda Thread-IT HTML Injection Vulnerability

vendor:

Thread-IT

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

HTML Injection

CWE

Product Name: Thread-IT

Affected Version From: 1.6 and prior

Affected Version To: 1.6 and prior

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:ymonda:thread-it

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

yMonda Thread-IT HTML Injection Vulnerability

It has been reported that yMonda Thread-IT is prone to a HTML injection vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute HTML code in a user's browser. The issue is reported to be present in the 'Topic Title', 'Name', and 'Message' fields. This problem is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials. Other attacks are also possible.

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/8692/info

It has been reported that yMonda Thread-IT is prone to a HTML injection vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute HTML code in a user's browser. The issue is reported to be present in the 'Topic Title', 'Name', and 'Message' fields. This problem is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials. Other attacks are also possible.

Thread-IT version 1.6 and prior may be vulnerable to this issue. 

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