PT-2003-2222 · Yabb · Yabb
Published
2003-12-31
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Updated
2008-09-05
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CVE-2003-1277
CVSS v2.0
4.3
Medium
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Yet Another Bulletin Board (YaBB) version 1.5.0
Description
The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script as other users, potentially stealing authentication information via cookies. This is achieved by injecting arbitrary HTML or script into specific parameters, including
news icon of news template.php and threadid and subject of index.html.Recommendations
For Yet Another Bulletin Board (YaBB) version 1.5.0, consider restricting access to the
news template.php and index.html files until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the news icon, threadid, and subject parameters in the affected files to minimize the risk of exploitation.Exploit
Fix
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Affected Products
Yabb