Advanced Electron Forum 1.0.6 - 'beg' Cross-Site Scripting

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2008-1983  
Publish Date: 21 Apr 2008
Author: ZoRLu
                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28865/info

Advanced Electron Forum (AEF) is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may let the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Advanced Electron Forum (AEF) 1.0.6 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

http://www.example.com/index.php?act=members&sortby=1&order=1&beg=[XSS]