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Trac URL Path Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18048
Release Date: 2005-12-16
Last Update: 2006-01-26
Popularity: 7,164 views

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

Software:Trac 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-4305


Description:
Christophe Truc has reported a vulnerability in Trac, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the URL path isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user after accessing a missing page. This can 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 versions 0.9, 0.9.1, and 0.9.2. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 0.9.3.
http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/TracDownload

Provided and/or discovered by:
Christophe Truc

Changelog:
2006-01-13: Added CVE reference.
2006-01-26: Updated "Solution" section.


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