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ajax-spell Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15737
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Release Date:
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2005-06-17
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Last Update:
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2005-06-24
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | AJAX Spell Checker (ajax-spell) 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-2042 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in ajax-spell, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed in HTML tag entities is not properly sanitised before being returned to users. This can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.7. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 1.9 or later.
NOTE: Users should not update to version 1.8, as the vendor introduced a bug in this version when fixing the vulnerability.
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Jake Olefsky.
Changelog:
2005-06-24: Added CVE reference.
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