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Memberlist add-on updated (XSS issue)

 
Author Paul
Lead Lead Developer
#1 · Posted: 6 Oct 2008 04:54Reply Quote
Members list add-on for miniBB was recently updated because of the possible XSS attack. Despite this issue is very minor and hard to achieve the proper effect, we recommend everybody using this add-on make necessary update of the core addon_members2.php file.

In this file, there are two line fixes of the received variable output:

$morder=(isset($_GET['morder'])?$_GET['morder']:'username');
becomes

$morder=(isset($_GET['morder'])?htmlspecialchars($_GET['morder'], ENT_QUOTES):'username');
and

$memberSearch=(isset($_GET['memberSearch'])?$_GET['memberSearch']:'');
becomes

$memberSearch=(isset($_GET['memberSearch'])?htmlspecialchars($_GET['memberSearch'], ENT_QUOTES):'');
I don't know whom to thank for discovering of this issue because we have received few simultaneous reports from various sources regarding it. Anyway to whom it may appeal: thank you :-)

Let us know if the patch applied will bring new issues.

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