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[SA20935] PHPWebGallery "keyword" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2006 - 02:47:04 CDT


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TITLE:
PHPWebGallery "keyword" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20935

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20935/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
PhpWebGallery 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/6487/

DESCRIPTION:
The Moroccan Security Research Team reported a vulnerability in
PHPWebGallery, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "keyword" parameter in comments.php is not
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.

The vulnerability has been reported for versions 1.5.2 and 1.6.0.
Other versions may also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Moroccan Security Research Team

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