PT-2005-2563 · Quick · Quick.Forum

Lostmon · Published 2005-05-14 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2005-1584

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Quick.Forum version 2.1.6

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the topic field in a "NewTopic" action. This can be exploited by sending a malicious request to the /index.php endpoint.

Recommendations For Quick.Forum version 2.1.6, update the index.php file to properly sanitize user input in the topic field to prevent XSS attacks. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "NewTopic" action until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1584

Affected Products

Quick.Forum

References · 5

• http://secunia.com/advisories/15200 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13602 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/16327 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2005/05/quickforum-topic-field-xss-and-page.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1584 · Security Note