PT-2008-3260 · Woltlab · Woltlab Burning Board+1

Published 2008-04-09 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-1716

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 WoltLab Burning Board version 3.0.5 WoltLab Community Framework (WCF) version 1.0.6

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the page and form parameters. These parameters are not properly handled when they are reflected back in an error message.

Recommendations For WoltLab Burning Board version 3.0.5, update the WoltLab Community Framework (WCF) to a version that properly handles the page and form parameters to prevent XSS attacks. For WoltLab Community Framework (WCF) version 1.0.6, ensure that error messages properly sanitize the page and form parameters to prevent reflection of malicious input.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-1716

Affected Products

Woltlab Burning Board

Woltlab Community Framework

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1716 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29719 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-April/061271.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41714 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/28678 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/490560/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1716 · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-04/0161.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/490782/100/0/threaded · Note