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TITLE:
FunkBoard Authentication Bypass and Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20433

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20433/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
FunkBoard 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5506/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FunkBoard, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions
and to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) The vulnerability is caused due to an insecure authentication
process in profile.php. This can be exploited to manipulate certain
user profiles.

2) Input to some unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised
before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.71. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch provided by the vendor.

http://www.funkboard.co.uk/forum/thread.php?id=302

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) ajann
2) Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/1875

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