Overview
TDForum does not properly filter HTML scripting tags from user input, allowing users to post malicious scripts that may be executed unwittingly by other users.
Description
TDForum is a commercial software package providing dynamic web forum capabilities. Versions 1.2 and earlier of TDForum do not properly filter HTML tags, allowing malicious users to execute client-side scripting on other users' systems. |
Impact
Users may be tricked into running scripts embedded in forum posts by malicious users. |
Solution
The CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem. |
Vendor Information
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CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
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| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Larry Lung for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Shawn Van Ittersum.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2001-0970 |
| Severity Metric: | 2.14 |
| Date Public: | 2001-08-21 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-09-26 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2002-09-26 21:57 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 8 |