[SA19397] uniForum "websecadmin.aspx" Cross-Site Scripting

TITLE:
uniForum "websecadmin.aspx" Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19397

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
uniForum 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/8960/

DESCRIPTION:
r0t has reported a vulnerability in uniForum, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "txtuser" and "txtpassword" parameters in
"websecadmin.aspx" is not properly sanitised before being returned to
the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script
code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 4. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
r0t

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2006/03/uniforum-xss-vuln.html

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