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Roller Weblogger Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21964
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Release Date:
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2006-09-18
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Last Update:
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2006-09-29
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Popularity:
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4,907 views
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Critical:
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Moderately 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 Workaround
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| Software: | Roller Weblogger 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-4856
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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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