From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 07:51:38 CDT

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PSCRIPT Forum User Profile Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12317

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12317/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Powies PSCRIPT Forum 1.x (PForum)
http://secunia.com/product/3794/

DESCRIPTION:
Christoph Jeschke has reported a vulnerability in PForum, allowing
malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to the "IRC Server" and "AIM ID" fields isn't sanitised
before being stored in the user profile. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected website when a malicious profile is viewed.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 1.26.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.26.
http://www.pscript.de/link/index.php?showcat=1

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Christoph Jeschke

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