ZH2003-15SA (security advisory): IdealBB XSS Vulnerability

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Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 05:47:41 PDT

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    ZH2003-15SA (security advisory): IdealBB XSS Vulnerability
    
    
    Published: 7 august 2003
    
    Released: 7 august 2003
    
    Name: IdealBB 
    
    Affected Systems: 1.4.9 beta
    
    Issue: Remote attackers can inject XSS script
    
    Author: G00db0y@zone-h.org
    
    Vendor: http://www.idealbb.com
    
    Description
    
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    Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in 
    IdealBB 1.4.9  (and older versions?). "The Ideal Bulletin Board 
    (Ideal BB) is a powerful, scalable, and very user friendly 
    bulletin board program that utilitzes SQL server on the backend
     and ASP and COM on the front end."
    
    
    
    Details
    
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    error.asp which is supposed to handle error messages,seems unfiltered
    agains Cross-Site Scripting. Which is allow any attacked to inject XSS
    script. 
    
    Example:
    
    http://www.site.com/idealbb/error.asp?e=16&sessionID={xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-
    xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}&msg=<script>alert('Zone-h')</script>
    
    
    Solution:
    
    *********
    
    The vendor has been contacted and a patch was produced
    
    
    Suggestions:
    
    ************
    
    Filter the script
    
    
    G00db0y - www.zone-h.org admin
    
    Original advisory here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2838/
    



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