Release Date: 2004-03-01
Critical: Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Software: phpBB 2.x
Description:
Cheng Peng Su has reported a vulnerability in phpBB, allowing malicious people to conduct Cross Site Scripting attacks.
User input passed to the "postorder" parameter in "viewtopic.php" isn't properly verified before it is returned to the user. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code by URL encoding it.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0.6c.
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that user input is properly sanitised.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Cheng Peng Su
Source: Secunia