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Invision Power Board - stored Cross site Scripting
Invision Power Board - stored Cross site Scripting
Invision Power Board - stored Cross site Scripting



[MajorSecurity SA-069]Invision Power Board - stored Cross site Scripting=0D
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Details=0D
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Product: Invision Power Board=0D
Security-Risk: moderated=0D
Remote-Exploit: yes=0D
Vendor-URL: http://www.invisionpower.com=0D 
Vendor-Status: informed=0D
Advisory-Status: published=0D
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Credits=0D
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Discovered by: David Vieira-Kurz=0D
http://www.majorsecurity.info/penetrationstest.php=0D 
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Affected Products:=0D
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Invision Power Board 3.0.5 and prior=0D
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Introduction=0D
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Invision Power Board is a widely used forums script.=0D
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More Details=0D
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Input passed to the calendar app (which is one of the core modules inside invision power board) is not properly sanitised before being stored and returned to the user.=0D
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.=0D
The calendar can be shown on every page of the invision board, so that in fact this is a serious security issue.=0D
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Solution=0D
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Web applications should never trust on user generated input and therefore sanatize all input.=0D
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