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>> vBulletin "prefs" and "navprefs" Parameters Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Title : vBulletin "prefs" and "navprefs" Parameters Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4599
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6040
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-20


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in vBulletin, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. These flaws are due to input validation errors in the "admincp/index.php" script that does not validate the "prefs" and "navprefs" parameters, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the administrators's browser in the security context of an affected Web site.

Affected Products

vBulletin versions 3.x

Solution

Upgrade to the latest version :
http://www.vbulletin.com/download.php

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4599

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by insanity

ChangeLog

2006-11-20 : Initial release

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