PBL Guestbook 1.31 pblguestbook.php Website cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in PBL Guestbook 1.31. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the file pblguestbook.php. Such manipulation of the argument Website leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-2975. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in PBL Guestbook 1.31. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file pblguestbook.php. The manipulation of the argument website with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in pblguestbook.php in PBL Guestbook 1.31 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via javascript in the SRC attribute of IMG tags in the (1) name, (2) email, and (3) website parameter, which bypasses XSS protection mechanisms that check for SCRIPT tags but not IMG. NOTE: portions of this description s details are obtained from third party information.

The weakness was shared 06/12/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-2975 since 06/12/2006. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for 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.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:pblguestbook.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 databases at X-Force (27006) and Secunia (SA20526†). The entry VDB-31343 is related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• PBL Guestbook

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• 1.31

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