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Open WebMail Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20714
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Release Date:
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2006-06-22
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Last Update:
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2006-06-30
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Popularity:
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5,287 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
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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: | Open WebMail 1.x
Open WebMail 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3229
CVE-2006-3233
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Open WebMail, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed to the "To" and "From" name and address in openwebmail-main.pl 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 vulnerability has been reported in versions released prior to 2006-05-12.
2) Input passed to the "From" address in openwebmail-read.pl 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 vulnerability has been reported in versions released prior to 2006-06-18.
Solution:
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the SVN repository (revision 237).
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) The vendor credits Kelson Vibber.
2) Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2006-06-30: Added CVE reference, and updated "Description", "Original Advisory" and credit sections.
Original Advisory:
http://openwebmail.acatysmoof.com/dev...openwebmail-main.pl?rev1=235;rev2=236
http://openwebmail.acatysmoof.com/dev...openwebmail-read.pl?rev1=236;rev2=237
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