[SA23484] OvBB Script Insertion Vulnerability

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TITLE:
OvBB Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23484

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23484/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
OvBB 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/13131/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in OvBB, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input to various files is not properly sanitised before being stored
and used in online.php. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary
HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser
session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is
viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.14a.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.14a.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.ovbb.org/forums/thread.php?threadid=185

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