Simple Machines Forum (SMF) pm parameter cross-site scripting
| smf-pm-xss (31612) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the index.php script. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the recipient or BCC form field to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
Platforms Affected:
- Simple Machines, Simple Machines Forum 1.1 RC3
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Sat Jan 20 2007 - 02:06:08 CST , SMF "index.php?action=pm" Cross Site-Scripting at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-01/0468.html.
- Simple Machines Web site, Simple Machines at http://www.simplemachines.org/.
- BID-22143: SMF Index.PHP HTML Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-0399: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in index.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1 RC3 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) recipient or (2) BCC field when selecting send in a pm action.
Reported:
Jan 20, 2007
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