Invision Power Board (IP.Board) 2.0.3/2.1 - 'Act' Cross-Site Scripting

Author: arron ward
type: webapps
platform: php
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date_added: 2005-05-03 
date_updated: 2018-01-08 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13483/info

Invision Power Board is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

It is reported this issue may only be exploitable through Microsoft Internet Explorer; this has not been confirmed.

http://www.example.com/index.php?act='><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>