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ELOG Entries Script Insertion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA22057
Release Date: 2006-09-25
Last Update: 2006-12-07
Popularity: 5,254 views

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

Software:ELOG 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-5063


Description:
Tilman Koschnick has reported a vulnerability in ELOG, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Entries edited in HTML mode are not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when malicious entries are viewed.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.6.1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 2.6.3-1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Tilam Koschnick

Changelog:
2006-09-28: Added CVE reference.
2006-12-07: Updated Solution with information about vendor update.

Original Advisory:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389361


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