MintBoard 0.3 Cross Site Scripting

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Description : MintBoard version 0.3 suffers from cross site scripting vulnerabilities

Author : Canberk BOLAT

Source : MintBoard 0.3 Cross Site Scripting ? Packet Storm

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Information
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Name :  XSS Vulnerabilities in MintBoard
Software :  MintBoard 0.3 and possibly below.
Vendor Homepage :  http://www.mintboard.com
Vulnerability Type :  Cross-Site Scripting
Severity :  Medium
Researcher :  Canberk Bolat
Advisory Reference :  NS-13-001

Description
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Mintboard is a forum software who aims to do less and do it better. An
attempt to say goodbye to the bloat found in forum software.

Details
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MintBoard is affected by XSS vulnerabilities in version 0.3.
http://example.com/?login=3 (POST: name)
http://example.com/?login=3 (POST: pass)
http://example.com/?signup=3 (POST: name)
http://example.com/?signup=3 (POST: pass)

You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
vulnerabilities from here:

Cross-site Scripting (XSS):
https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-vulnerabilities-in-mintboard/

Solution
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Advisory Timeline
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06/12/2012 - First contact
10/07/2013 - Advisory Released

Credits
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It has been discovered on testing of Netsparker, Web Application Security
Scanner.

References
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Vendor Url / Patch :
MSL Advisory Link :
https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-vulnerabilities-in-mintboard/
Netsparker Advisories :
https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/

About Netsparker
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Netsparker® can find and report security issues such as SQL Injection and
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in all web applications regardless of the
platform and the technology they are built on. Netsparker's unique
detection and exploitation techniques allows it to be dead accurate in
reporting hence it's the first and the only False Positive Free web
application security scanner.

-- 
Netsparker Advisories, <advisories@mavitunasecurity.com>
Homepage, http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/