[SA19309] webcheck Website Content Script Insertion Vulnerability

TITLE:
webcheck Website Content Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19309

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
webcheck 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/8877/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in webcheck, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the
parsing of website content when crawling websites. This can be
exploited by a malicious website to inject arbitrary HTML and script
code via the URL, title, or author name, which will be executed in an
administrator's browser session in context of an affected site when
the malicious data is viewed via generated reports.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.9.5. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.9.6.
http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/webcheck/downloads.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/webcheck/news.html#20060130

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