vBulletin 2.x - 'private.php' Cross-Site Scripting

Author: JeiAr
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2004-03-22 
date_updated: 2013-01-03 
verified: 1 
codes: OSVDB-4309 
tags: 
aliases:  
screenshot_url:  
application_url: 

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9940/info

It has been reported that VBulletin is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the 'ptivate.php' script. This issue is reportedly due to a failure to sanitize user input and so allow for injection of HTML and script code that may facilitate cross-site scripting attacks.

Successful exploitation of this issue may allow for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials or other attacks.

http://www.example.com/private.php?&action=newmessage&userid=[UID]&forward=[XSS]