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TITLE:
PyBlosxom Contributed Packages Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20436
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20436/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Contributed Packages for PyBlosxom 1.3 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/10331/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Contributed Packages for
PyBlosxom 1.3, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "url" and "author" fields in the Comments plugin
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 1.2.2. Prior versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.0.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67445
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Tung Wai Yip.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=422015
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