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vBulletin XSS

Family:

CGI abuses : XSS

Category:

infos

Copyright:

This script is Copyright (C) 2004 David Maciejak

Summary:

Checks the version of vBulletin

Version:

$Revision: 1.5 $

Cve_id:

CAN-2004-0620

Bugtraq_id:

10612, 10602

Xrefs:

OSVDB:7256

Description:

The remote host is running vBulletin, a web based bulletin board system
written in PHP.

The remote version of this software is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting
issue, due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied
URI input.

As a result of this vulnerability, it is possible for a remote attacker
to create a malicious link containing script code that will be executed
in the browser of an unsuspecting user when followed.

This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials
as well as other attacks.


Solution : Upgrade to vBulletin 3.0.2 or newer
Risk factor : Medium