PBLang BBS <= 4.65 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17209

Synopsis

The remote web server contains a PHP application that suffers from multiple flaws.

Description

According to its banner, the remote host is running a version of PBLang BBS, a bulletin board system written in PHP, that suffers from the following vulnerabilities:

- HTML Injection Vulnerability in pmpshow.php.
An attacker can inject arbitrary HTML and script into the body of PMs sent to users allowing for theft of authentication cookies or misrepresentation of the site.

- Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in search.php.
If an attacker can trick a user into following a specially crafted link to search.php from an affected version of PBLang, he can inject arbitrary script into the user's browser to, say, steal authentication cookies.

- Remote PHP Script Injection Vulnerability in ucp.php.
PBLang allows a user to enter a PHP script into his/her profile values, to be executed with the permissions of the web server user whenever the user logs in.

- Directory Traversal Vulnerability in sendpm.php.
A logged-in user can read arbitrary files, subject to permissions of the web server user, by passing full pathnames through the 'orig' parameter when calling sendpm.php.

- Arbitrary Personal Message Deletion Vulnerability in delpm.php.
A logged-in user can delete anyone's personal messages by passing a PM id through the 'id' parameter and a username through the 'a' parameter when calling delpm.php.

Solution

Upgrade to PBLang 4.66z or later.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Feb/475

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Feb/476

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Mar/29

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Mar/32

http://www.nessus.org/u?a6808b6a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17209

File Name: pblang_xss.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 2/24/2005

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: www/PHP

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0526, CVE-2005-0630, CVE-2005-0631

BID: 12631, 12633, 12666, 12690, 12694

CWE: 20, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 74, 750, 751, 79, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990