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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------- GERMAN COMPUTER FREAKS - SECURITY ADVISORY - SINCE 1997 January 20st, 2003 - - ------------------------------------------------------- Software : vBulletin Bulletin Board Vendor : Jelsoft Enterprises Limited / inGame GmbH Vulnerability : Cross Site Scripting Status : Author has been notified - - ------------------------------------------------------ - - - - Description vBulletin Bulletin Board derivatives contain a security bug that may lead to disclosure of private informations due to a cross site scripting attack. This vulnerability may enable an attacker to transmit sensitive informations like 'encrypted' passwords, user identification numbers or forum passwords to another server. Currently, we will refrain from publishing proof of concept information to mitigate the impact of this vulnerability. - - - - Technical Details Due to an improper quoted field in register.php it's possible to inject malicious HTML code. With the use of Javascript code an attack is then able to send sensitive informations (like cookies) to a foreign server. Attack Example: