Overview
Powie's PSCRIPT Forum fails to properly sanitize user input, which allows an attacker to create a user profile that can execute arbitrary scripts in a victim's web browser when the victim views the profile.
Description
Powie's PSCRIPT Forum is an online forum application written in PHP. The application allows users to set up a user profile which may be viewed by other users. A failure to filter input in two fields of the user profile section may permit a malicious user to post HTML/script that will be interpreted by a victim's client. |
Impact
A malicious user can execute arbitrary HTML/script in the context of the vulnerable web site. If this vulnerability is exploited, a user may be tricked into exposing sensitive information, allowing an attacker to gather information such as passwords and credit card numbers. Information stored in cookies may also be stolen or corrupted. |
Solution
This issue is resolved in version 1.26 of the forum, available from the pscript.de download page. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Christoph Jeschke for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Will Dormann.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | None |
| Severity Metric: | 2.81 |
| Date Public: | 2004-08-15 |
| Date First Published: | 2004-08-23 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2004-08-25 17:50 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 9 |