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Roller Weblogger Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA21964
Release Date: 2006-09-18
Last Update: 2006-09-29
Popularity: 4,907 views

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

Software:Roller Weblogger 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-4856


Description:
Avinash Shenoi has reported some vulnerabilities in Roller Weblogger, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to the "name", "email", and "url" fields when commenting 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.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in version 2.3.1-rc1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Avinash Shenoi, Cenzic Inc

Changelog:
2006-09-21: Added CVE reference.
2006-09-29: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.

Original Advisory:
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1196

Other References:
US-CERT VU#366900:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/366900


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