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[SA20229] AlstraSoft E-Friends Script Insertion Vulnerabilities

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed May 24 2006 - 04:17:06 CDT


TITLE:
AlstraSoft E-Friends Script Insertion Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20229

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20229/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
AlstraSoft E-Friends 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/5758/

DESCRIPTION:
luny has reported some vulnerabilities in AlstraSoft E-Friends, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion
attacks.

Some input passed when posting a blog, listing, event, comment, or
message isn't 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 data is viewed.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
luny

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