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HistoryMay 21, 2007 - 12:00 a.m.

Gnats XSS vuln

2007-05-2100:00:00
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GNATS XSS vuln

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Vuln. discovered by : r0t
Date: 19 May 2007
vendor:http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/
affected versions: tested on Gnatsweb v4.00, Gnats v4.1.99
orginal advisory:http://pridels-team.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post.html
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Gnats contains a flaw that allows a remote Cross-Site Scripting
attacks.Input passed to the "database" parameter in "gnatsweb.pl"
isn't 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.

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