PHPBB2 Plus 1.5 - 'viewtopic.php' Cross-Site Scripting

EDB-ID:

25401

CVE:

N/A


Author:

Dcrab

Type:

webapps


Platform:

PHP

Date:

2005-04-13


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13153/info

phpBB2 Plus is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue 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.

http://www.example.com/viewtopic.php?p=58834&amp%3bsid='%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E