Invision Power Services IP.Board up to 2.1.7 Control Panel cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Invision Power Services IP.Board up to 2.1.7. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Control Panel. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-5203. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Invision Power Services IP.Board up to 2.1.7 (Forum Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Control Panel. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Invision Power Board (IPB) 2.1.7 and earlier allows remote restricted administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, or execute arbitrary SQL commands, via a forum description that contains a crafted image with PHP code, which is executed when the user visits the "Manage Forums" link in the Admin control panel.

The weakness was shared 10/10/2006 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-5203 since 10/09/2006. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is declared as highly functional.

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 X-Force (29352). The entry VDB-32660 is related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Forum Software

Vendor

• Invision Power Services

Name

• IP.Board

Version

• 2.1.0
• 2.1.1
• 2.1.2
• 2.1.3
• 2.1.4
• 2.1.5
• 2.1.6
• 2.1.7

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://invisioncommunity.com/

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