SNS Vulnerability

vBulletin vbShout Module "message" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in the vBShout module for vBulletin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "message" parameter in vbshout.php (when "do" is set to "archive" and "instanceid" is valid) 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.
This vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 6.0.7.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
vBShout (module for vBulletin) 6.x

Solution

Update to version 6.0.7.

CVE

References

DragonByte Technologies:
http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f4/vbshout-v6-0-7-security-release-6885/
Avram Marius Gabriel:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/111160/vBulletin-vBShout-6.0.5-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2012-03-27

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote