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[SA12909] Serendipity Unspecified HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 05:37:02 CDT


TITLE:
Serendipity Unspecified HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12909

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12909/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Serendipity 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/3969/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Serendipity, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion and
cross-site scripting attacks.

Some unspecified input isn't properly sanitised before being returned
to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and
script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable
site.

This can also be exploited to perform web cache poisoning.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 0.7-rc1.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-blog/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits ChaoticEvil.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=276694

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