[SA19372] Meeting Reserve Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

TITLE:
Meeting Reserve Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19372

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Meeting Reserve 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/8957/

DESCRIPTION:
Pratiksha Doshi has reported a vulnerability in Meeting Reserve,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site
scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "search_term" parameter in "searchresult.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 has been reported in version 1.0 beta. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Pratiksha Doshi

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