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[SA32074] Blosxom "flav" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 17:24:04 CDT


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TITLE:
Blosxom "flav" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32074

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32074/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Blosxom 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20023/

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

Input passed via the "flav" parameter in blosxom.cgi 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 versions prior to 2.1.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.1.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Yoshinori Ohta of Business Architects Inc.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=630149

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