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Secunia Research 17/03/2010
- Quicksilver Forums Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10
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1) Affected Software
* Quicksilver Forums 1.4.2
* PowerDNS Administrator 1.1.8
* QSF Portal 1.4.5
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Less critical
Impact: Cross-Site Scripting
Where: Remote
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"Quicksilver Forums is a fast, secure, powerful PHP/MySQL based forum
script.".
Product Link:
http://www.quicksilverforums.com/
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Quicksilver
Forums, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site request forgery attacks.
The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP
requests without performing any validity checks to verify the
requests. This can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary SQL
queries by tricking a logged in administrator into visiting a
malicious web site.
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5) Solution
Do not browse untrusted sites or follow untrusted links while being
logged-in to the application.
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6) Time Table
24/02/2010 - Vendor of QSF Portal and PowerDNS Administrator notified.
04/03/2010 - Vendor of QSF Portal and PowerDNS Administrator notified
again.
10/03/2010 - Vendor of Quicksilver Forums notified.
12/03/2010 - Vendor of Quicksilver Forums responds.
17/03/2010 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has not yet
assigned a CVE identifier for the vulnerability.
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10) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-40/
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