From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 07:32:04 CDT

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TITLE:
phpBB "cur_password" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19494

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19494/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
phpBB 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/463/

DESCRIPTION:
Preddy has discovered a vulnerability in phpBB, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the "cur_password" parameter in profile.php when
editing the profile is not 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 an affected
site.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.0.19. Other
versions may also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Preddy, RootShell Security Group

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