PHPMailList "email" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20959
Release Date: 2006-07-06
Last Update: 2006-07-14
Popularity: 5,148 views

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

Software:PHPMailList 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-3482
CVE-2006-3483


Description:
Lostmon has discovered a vulnerability in PHPMailList, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "email" parameter in maillist.php 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 confirmed in version 1.8.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Lostmon

Changelog:
2006-07-13: Added CVE reference.
2006-07-14: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2006/07/multiple-vulnerabilities-in.html


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