A vulnerability was found in Jonathon Freeman OvBB 0.13a. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function getlocation of the file online.php. The manipulation of the argument aRequest with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the GetLocation function in online.php in Jonathon J. Freeman OvBB 0.13a allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the aRequest variable.

The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at ovbb.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-6892 since 01/05/2007. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:online.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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