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TITLE:
Geeklog Forum Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39683

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39683/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Geeklog Forum, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed via anonymous usernames to createtopic.php 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.

Successful exploitation requires that posting for anonymous users is
enabled.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.7.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.7.3.
http://www.geeklog.net/filemgmt/index.php?id=1001

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Jaloh Smith.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/forum-2.7.3
http://www.geeklog.net/filemgmt/index.php?id=1001

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