National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6437
Original release date:03/06/2009
Last revised:04/02/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in PHPFreeForum 1.0 RC2 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) message parameter to error.php, and the (2) nickname and (3) randomid parameters to part/menu.php.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: XF
Name: phpfreeforum-error-menu-xss(42586)
External Source: BID
Name: 29337
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080522 PHPFreeForum <= 1.0 RC2 Remote XSS Vulnerability
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30372
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 45608
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 45607