From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 07:30:06 CST

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TITLE:
Cherokee Error Page Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10701

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10701/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Cherokee 0.x

DESCRIPTION:
César Fernández has identified a vulnerability in Cherokee, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Requested URLs are included in returned error pages without prior
sanitation of the input, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary
HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a
vulnerable site.

Example:
http://[vulnerable_server]/<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.4.8.
http://www.alobbs.com/cherokee/download

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
César Fernández

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