From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 03:52:09 CDT

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TITLE:
Invision Power Board Referer Header Cross-Site Scripting
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12740

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12740/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Invision Power Board 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3705/

DESCRIPTION:
Alexander Antipov has reported a vulnerability in Invision Power
Board, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via the "Referer" header to "index.php" isn't properly
sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in
context of a vulnerable site.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0.0. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Alexander Antipov

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