From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Sep 01 2004 - 09:06:27 CDT

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TITLE:
DasBlog Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12416

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12416/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
DasBlog 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/3857/

DESCRIPTION:
Dominick Baier has reported a vulnerability in DasBlog by
Newtelligence, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
script insertion attacks.

Input passed in the "User-Agent:" and "Referer:" headers and the
query string is not sanitised before being logged. This can be
exploited via a specially crafted HTTP request to execute arbitrary
HTML or script code in an administrator's browser session when a
malicious administrator entry is viewed.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.4. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch:
http://www.dasblog.net/documentation/CategoryView.aspx?category=Download

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dominick Baier

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