From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2007 - 13:17:14 CDT

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TITLE:
Nessus Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25856

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25856/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/13714/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Nessus, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Unspecified input within the Windows GUI is not properly sanitised
before being returned to a 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:
Update to version 3.0.6.
http://www.nessus.org/download/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Japanese CERT.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.nessus.org/news/

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