From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2007 - 11:17:06 CDT

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TITLE:
GForge "confirm_hash" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27046

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27046/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
GForge 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/5451/

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

Input passed to the "confirm_hash" parameter in account/verify.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 is reported in version 4.6b2. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.
http://gforge.org/scm/viewvc.php/trunk/gforge/www/account/verify.php?root=gforge&r1=5967&r2=6092

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jose Sanchez

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://gforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105&aid=3094&group_id=1

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