Re: www.proboards.com / YaBB XSS Vuln

[Patrick Clinger <pclinger () proboards com>]

In-Reply-To: <20040915231242.3251.qmail () www securityfocus com>

This flaw has been fixed.

I would like to take this opportunity to first state that ProBoards does not run on YaBB software as the author of this 
thread implies.  We run on our own in-house developed software, which the YaBB team will vouch for.

Also I would like to note that we were not notified of this vulnerability until last last night, nearly 24 hours after 
it was posted here.  I respectfully request of the author of this post to first contact the vendor as is the standard 
courtesy for these situations.  Not contacting the vendor first is irresponsible.

Patrick Clinger
ProBoards.com

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> Subject: www.proboards.com / YaBB XSS Vuln
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> A Cross Site scripting vulnerability exists currently for all boards of the ever popular www.proboards.com which has 
> code based off of the popular YaBB Forums.
>
> This can result in an attacker stealing users Cookie Information and possible defacing/hijacking of the message board 
> and its users accounts on the message board.
>
> The following code can be used to execute this XSS vuln:
>
> http://WEBSITE/index.cgi?board=[BOARDNAME]&action=display&num=[VALID TOPIC 
> NUMBER]&">&lt;script&gt;alert(document.cookie);&lt;/script&gt;
>
> Be Cautious of suspicous looking links.
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