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[SA13284] Zwiki Link Script Insertion Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Nov 24 2004 - 06:21:54 CST


TITLE:
Zwiki Link Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13284

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13284/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Zwiki 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4309/

DESCRIPTION:
Jeremy Bae has reported a vulnerability in Zwiki, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to links is not properly sanitised before being used.
This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which
will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected
site when the malicious user-edited page is viewed.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.36.2. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jeremy Bae, STG Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://zwiki.org/925ZwikiXSSVulnerability

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