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cPanel "file" Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA20840  
Release Date: 2006-06-27
Last Update: 2006-07-06

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

Software:cPanel 10.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-3337 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Preth00nker has reported a vulnerability in cPanel, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "file" parameter in select.html 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.

Example:
http://[host]:2082/frontend/x/files/select.html?dir=/&file=[code]

Solution:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a proxy server or firewall with URL filtering capabilities.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Preth00nker

Changelog:
2006-07-06: Added CVE reference.



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