Description: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in ht://Dig, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "config" and "sort" parameters isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user in an error message. This may be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.
Solution: Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a proxy server or firewall with URL filtering capabilities.
Provided and/or discovered by: Michael Krax and Michael Skibbe
Changelog: 2007-11-29: Added information about vulnerable "sort" parameter provided by Michael Skibbe.
2007-12-04: Updated CVE references.
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