From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2006 - 11:47:04 CDT

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TITLE:
ATutor Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20941

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20941/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
ATutor 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5252/

DESCRIPTION:
Security News has discovered some vulnerabilities in ATutor, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Some 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 an affected site.

Examples:
http://[host]/admin/create_course.php?show_courses=[code]&current_cat=[code]
http://[host]/users/create_course.php?show_courses=[code]
http://[host]/documentation/admin/?p=2.0.configuration.php">[code]
http://[host]/password_reminder.php?forgot=Email+Reminder">[code]
http://[host]/users/browse.php?cat=[code]
http://[host]/admin/fix_content.php?submit=Submit">[code]

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 1.5.1 and have
also been reported in version 1.5.3 RC2. Other versions may also be
affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.3.
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/download.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Security News

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.atutor.ca/view/3/8341/1.html

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