From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Dec 25 2007 - 15:17:04 CST

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TITLE:
SimpleForum "searchkey" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28235

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28235/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
SimpleForum Pro 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/17037/

DESCRIPTION:
Jose Luis Góngora Fernández has reported a vulnerability in
SimpleForum Pro, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "searchkey" form field parameter when performing
a search 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 is reported in version 4.6.2. Other versions may
also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jose Luis Góngora Fernández a.k.a JosS.

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