NewsGlue Feed Script Insertion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA24603
Release Date: 2007-03-22
Last Update: 2007-04-02
Popularity: 4,539 views

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

Software:NewsGlue 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1610
CVE-2007-1611


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in NewsGlue, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when processing RSS feeds. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in context of the feed by tricking a user into adding a malicious feed and then viewing the contents.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 1.3.3 and prior.

Solution:
Update to version 1.3.4.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in a JVN repository.

Changelog:
2007-04-02: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
JVN#64227086:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2364227086/index.html


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