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FreeWebStat Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA17783
Release Date: 2005-11-29
Last Update: 2005-12-07
Popularity: 4,277 views

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

Software:FreeWebStat 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-3959


Description:
Francesco "aScii" Ongaro has reported some vulnerabilities in FreeWebStat, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Some input isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 1.0 rev37. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Francesco "aScii" Ongaro

Changelog:
2005-12-07: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.ush.it/2005/11/25/free-web-stat/


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