Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vBulletin 3.0.12 and 3.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the email field, which is injected in profile.php but not sanitized in sendmsg.php.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- vBulletin 3.0/3.5 - 'profile.php?Email' HTML Injection EDB-27343 · webapps · Mar 2, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 19100 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2006-0808 vdb-entry
- 20060302 vBulletin3.0.12&3.5.3~is_valid_email()~XSS Attack mailing-list
- 20060301 [KAPDA::#26]vBulletin.3.5.3~3.0.12-XSS mailing-list
- http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=1079030
- http://www.kapda.ir/advisory-266.html
- 16919 vdb-entry
- 23614 vdb-entry