[SECURITY] CVE-2011-0533: Apache Continuum cross-site scripting vulnerability

CVE-2011-0533: Apache Continuum cross-site scripting vulnerability

Severity: Important

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Continuum 1.3.6
Continuum 1.4.0 (Beta)
The unsupported versions Continuum 1.1 - 1.2.3.1 are also affected.

Description:
A request that included a specially crafted request parameter could be
used to inject arbitrary HTML or Javascript into Continuum project
pages.

Mitigation:
Continuum 1.3.6 and earlier users should upgrade to 1.3.7

Continuum 1.4.0 (Beta) users should apply the following patch:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1066056

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Tal Be'ery of Imperva.

References:
http://continuum.apache.org/security.html

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