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NewsPortal Cross-Site Scripting and File Inclusion
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20128
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Release Date:
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2006-05-17
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Last Update:
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2006-05-26
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Popularity:
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5,131 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
System access
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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: | NewsPortal 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-2556
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in NewsPortal, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a vulnerable system.
1) An input validation error in extras/poll/poll.php can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local and external resources.
For more information:
SA20119
2) Some input isn't 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.
Solution:
Update to version 0.37.
http://florian-amrhein.de/newsportal/download
Provided and/or discovered by:
2) Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2006-05-26: Added CVE reference.
Other References:
SA20119:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20119/
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