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>> phpBB "Allow HTML" Messages Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Title : phpBB "Allow HTML" Messages Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0051
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0063
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-01-05


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A vulnerability has been identified in phpBB, which could be exploited by attackers to execute malicious scripting code. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "Allow HTML" feature when processing a specially crafted message, which may be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser. This vulnerability is a variant of VUPEN/ADV-2005-2991



Affected Products

phpBB version 2.0.19 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to phpBB version 2.0.20 :
http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0051
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/30

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz

ChangeLog

2006-01-05 : Initial release
2006-04-14 : Updated Solution

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