PT-2005-2576 · Invision · Invision Power Board

James Bercegay · Published 2005-05-16 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2005-1597

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 Invision Power Board (IPB) versions 2.0.3 and earlier

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This is possible via the highlite parameter in the "search.php" and "topics.php" files.

Recommendations For Invision Power Board (IPB) versions 2.0.3 and earlier, update to a version later than 2.0.3 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "search.php" and "topics.php" files or avoiding the use of the highlite parameter until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1597

Affected Products

Invision Power Board

References · 12

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/43824 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1597 · Security Note
• http://gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00073-05052005 · Patch
• http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=168016 · Patch
• http://osvdb.org/16298 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013907 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111539908705851&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20445 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1597 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13534 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15265 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0487 · Note