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Secunia Advisory SA15253

Gossamer Threads Links Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA15253

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Release Date

2005-05-05

Last Update

2005-07-06

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Cross Site Scripting

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Workaround

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Software:

Gossamer Threads Links 2.x

Gossamer Threads Links SQL 3.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2005-1492 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Gossamer Threads Links, which can be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "URL" parameter in "user.cgi" isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.

Solution
Upgrade to version 3.04.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Nathan House

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=281029;

http://www.stationx.net/downloads/Gossamer_Threads_Links_SQL_login_XSS_vulnerability.pdf

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area

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