phpBB message cross-site request forgery
| phpbb-message-csrf (30786) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
phpBB is vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input when sending messages. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially-crafted HTTP request, to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activity, if the attacker could persuade the victim to visit a malicious site.
Platforms Affected:
- Debian, Debian Linux 3.1
- Debian, Debian Linux 4.0
- phpBB, phpBB 2.0.x
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of phpBB (2.0.22 or later), available from the phpBB Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Dec 07 2006 - 12:10:36 CST , phpbb 2.0.x [xss] at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-12/0127.html.
- phpBB Web site, phpBB Add Name at http://www.phpbb.com/.
- CVE-2006-6508: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.21 allows remote authenticated users to send unauthorized messages as an arbitrary user via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
- DSA-1488: phpbb2 -- several vulnerabilities
- SA23283: phpBB privmsg.php Cross-Site Request Forgery and Cross-Site Scripting
Reported:
Dec 07, 2006
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