phpBB2 Plus Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

vendor:

phpBB2 Plus

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: phpBB2 Plus

Affected Version From: 1.52

Affected Version To: 1.52

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:phpbb:phpbb2_plus

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

phpBB2 Plus Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

phpBB2 Plus is affected by multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that user-supplied data does not contain malicious code.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13151/info

phpBB2 Plus is affected by multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

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

These issues affect phpBB2 Plus version 1.52 and earlier. 

http://www.example.com/portal.php?article=0&amp%3bsid='%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E
http://www.example.com/portal.php?article='%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E&amp%3bsid=2fb087b5e3c7098d0e48a76a9c67cf59