Woltlab Burning Board 2.3.6 register.php cross site scripting ⚔ [Disputed]

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A vulnerability was found in Woltlab Burning Board 2.3.6. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file register.php. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2007-1443. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment.

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A vulnerability has been found in Woltlab Burning Board 2.3.6 (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the file register.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in register.php in Woltlab Burning Board (wBB) 2.3.6 and Burning Board Lite 1.0.2pl3e allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) r_username, (2) r_email, (3) r_password, (4) r_confirmpassword, (5) r_homepage, (6) r_icq, (7) r_aim, (8) r_yim, (9) r_msn, (10) r_year, (11) r_month, (12) r_day, (13) r_gender, (14) r_signature, (15) r_usertext, (16) r_invisible, (17) r_usecookies, (18) r_admincanemail, (19) r_emailnotify, (20) r_notificationperpm, (21) r_receivepm, (22) r_emailonpm, (23) r_pmpopup, (24) r_showsignatures, (25) r_showavatars, (26) r_showimages, (27) r_daysprune, (28) r_umaxposts, (29) r_dateformat, (30) r_timeformat, (31) r_startweek, (32) r_timezoneoffset, (33) r_usewysiwyg, (34) r_styleid, (35) r_langid, (36) key_string, (37) key_number, (38) disablesmilies, (39) disablebbcode, (40) disableimages, (41) field[1], (42) field[2], and (43) field[3] parameters. NOTE: a third-party researcher has disputed some of these vectors, stating that only the r_dateformat and r_timeformat parameters in Burning Board 2.3.6 are affected.

The weakness was presented 03/13/2007 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at vupen.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2007-1443 since 03/13/2007. 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.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. By approaching the search of inurl:register.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 Secunia (SA24386†). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Content Management System

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• Woltlab

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• Burning Board

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• 2.3.6

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.woltlab.com/

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