Trac Wiki Macro Script Insertion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19870
Release Date: 2006-04-28
Last Update: 2006-05-03
Popularity: 7,448 views

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

Software:Trac 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2106


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported Trac. which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed using the wiki macro 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.

Solution:
Update to version 0.9.5.
http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/TracDownload

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Mr. Kazuhiro Nishiyama.

Changelog:
2006-05-03: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/ChangeLog
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2384091359/index.html


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