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Advanced Poll Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA17669
Release Date: 2005-11-22
Last Update: 2006-04-07
Popularity: 6,831 views

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

Software:Chi Kien Uong Advanced Poll 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1616
CVE-2006-1617


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Advanced Poll, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and SQL injection attacks.

1) Input passed to the "poll_ident" parameter in popup.php is not 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 an affected site.

This vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.0.3. Other versions may also be affected.

2) Input passed to the "id" parameter in comments.php and to the "poll_id" parameter in page.php is not 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 an affected site.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2.02. Other versions may also be affected.

3) Input passed to the "id" parameter in comments.php and to the "poll_id" parameter in page.php is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2.02. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 2.0.4.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) ][GB][
2,3) Silitix

Changelog:
2004-04-07: Updated "Description" and "Solution" sections. Added CVE references.

Original Advisory:
http://ns79.hosteur.com/~secuti/advancedpoll.txt


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