Jelsoft vBulletin up to 3.0.9 announcement.php cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Jelsoft vBulletin and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the file announcement.php. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2005-3023. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Jelsoft vBulletin (Forum Software). This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the file announcement.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in vBulletin 3.0.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain arguments to (1) announcement.php, (2) admincalendar.php, (3) bbcode.php, (4) cronadmin.php, (5) email.php, (6) faq.php, (7) forum.php, (8) image.php, (9) language.php, (10) ranks.php, (11) replacement.php, (12) replacement.php, (13) template.php, (14) template.php, (15) usergroup.php, or (16) usertitle.php.

The weakness was published 09/21/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at morph3us.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2005-3023 since 09/21/2005. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

By approaching the search of inurl:announcement.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.

Similar entry is available at VDB-26379. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Forum Software

Vendor

• Jelsoft

Name

• vBulletin

Version

• 1.0.1
• 2.0 Rc2
• 2.0 Rc3
• 2.0.3
• 2.2.0
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3
• 2.2.4
• 2.2.5
• 2.2.6
• 2.2.7
• 2.2.8
• 2.2.9
• 2.3.0
• 2.3.2
• 2.3.3
• 2.3.4
• 3.0 Beta 2
• 3.0 Beta 3
• 3.0 Beta 4
• 3.0 Beta 5
• 3.0 Beta 6
• 3.0 Beta 7
• 3.0 Gamma
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
• 3.0.9

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vbulletin.com/

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