Phorum 5.1.20 - 'admin.php?modsettings Module smiley_id' Cross-Site Scripting

Author: Janek Vind
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2007-04-23  
date_updated: 2013-11-29  
verified: 1  
codes: CVE-2007-2248;OSVDB-35058  
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raw file: 29888.txt  
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23616/info

Phorum is prone to multiple input-validation vulnerabilities, including an unauthorized-access issue, privilege-escalation issue, multiple SQL-injection issues, and cross-site scripting issues, because the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify sensitive data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

Phorum 5.1.20 is affected; prior versions may also be vulnerable.

http://localhost/phorum.5.1.20/admin.php?module=modsettings&mod=smileys&
edit=1&smiley_id="><script>alert(123);</script>