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Tor World CGI Scripts Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA31835
Release Date: 2008-09-11
Last Update: 2008-09-30
Popularity: 1,209 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Tor World InteractiveBBS CGI Script 1.x
Tor World SimpleBBS CGI Script 1.x
Tor World Topics BBS CGI Script 1.x
Tor World Tor Board CGI Script 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-4076


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in various Tor World CGI Scripts, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to unspecified parameters 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 vulnerabilities are reported in the following products and versions:
* Simple BBS version 1.86 and prior
* Interactive BBS version 1.57 and prior
* Topics BBS version 1.11 and prior
* Tor Board version 1.3 and prior

Solution:
The vendor has released updated versions.
http://download.torworld.com/bug/20080905.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
JVN credits Yutaka Kokubu of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.

Changelog:
2008-09-30: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
JVN:
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN18616622/index.html

Tor World:
http://download.torworld.com/bug/20080905.html


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