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FeedDemon Atom Feed Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA21995
Release Date: 2006-09-19
Popularity: 4,128 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:FeedDemon 1.x
FeedDemon 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-4710


Description:
SPI Dynamics have reported some vulnerabilities in FeedDemon, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to input validation errors in the processing of Atom feeds. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in context of the Atom feed by tricking a user into adding a malicious Atom feed and then viewing the contents of it.

Solution:
Update to version 2.0.0.25:
http://www.newsgator.com/download/FeedDemon/FeedDemonInstall.exe

Provided and/or discovered by:
SPI Dynamics

Original Advisory:
NewsGator Technologies:
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/feed_security_a_1.html
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/08/ann_feeddemon_2.html

SPI Dynamics:
http://www.cgisecurity.com/papers/RSS-Security.ppt


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