Powie PForum 1.1x - 'Username' Cross-Site Scripting

Author: Jens Liebchen
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2002-02-22 
date_updated: 2012-09-12 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2002-0319;OSVDB-9285 
tags: 
aliases:  
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application_url: 

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4165/info

Powie PForum is web forum software, written in PHP and back-ended by MySQL. It will run on most Unix and Linux variants, as well as Microsoft Windows operating systems.

PForum is prone to cross-site scripting attacks. It is possible for an attacker to construct a malicious link which includes arbitrary script code. In particular, the username URL parameter does not filter variations of HTML tags. A legitimate user who browses the malicious link will have the attacker-supplied script code executed in their browser, in their context of the website running the vulnerable software.

This may enable an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials from the legitimate user.

http://www.server.com/pforum/edituser.php?boardid=&agree=1
&username=%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E
&nickname=test&email=test@test.com&pwd=test&pwd2=test&filled=1