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Serendipity Remote RSS Sidebar Plugin Script Insertion Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA28012  
Release Date: 2007-12-10
Last Update: 2007-12-12

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

Software:Serendipity 0.x
Serendipity 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-6205 (Secunia mirror)

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

Input passed via links in RSS feeds is not properly sanitised in the Remote RSS sidebar plugin before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is then executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when malicious RSS feeds are viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.2.1.

Solution:
Update to version 1.2.1.
http://www.s9y.org/12.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Hanno Böck.

Changelog:
2007-12-12: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/187-Serendipity-1.2.1-released.html



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