Jelsoft vBulletin 3.0.0 Beta 2 Preview Message private.php cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Jelsoft vBulletin 3.0.0 Beta 2 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file private.php of the component Preview Message Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2003-0295. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Jelsoft vBulletin 3.0.0 Beta 2 (Forum Software). This affects an unknown part of the file private.php of the component Preview Message Handler. The manipulation 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 integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in private.php for vBulletin 3.0.0 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script and HTML via the "Preview Message" capability.

The weakness was released 06/16/2003 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0295 since 05/14/2003. 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 and a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:private.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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (22599). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Forum Software

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• Jelsoft

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• vBulletin

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• 3.0.0 Beta 2

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vbulletin.com/

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