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[SA15971] Interspire ArticleLive 2005 "Username" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jul 08 2005 - 04:34:46 CDT


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TITLE:
Interspire ArticleLive 2005 "Username" Cross-Site Scripting
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15971

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15971/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Interspire ArticleLive 2005
http://secunia.com/product/4834/

DESCRIPTION:
"Critical Security" has reported a vulnerability in Interspire
ArticleLive 2005, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "Username" parameter in "authors/register/do"
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 an affected site.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
"Critical Security"

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://critical.lt/?loc=articles&id=10

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