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Serendipity Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA22501  
Release Date: 2006-10-20
Last Update: 2006-10-27

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

Software:Serendipity 0.x
Serendipity 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-5499 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Stefan Esser has reported some vulnerabilities in Serendipity, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to unspecified parameters in the administration backend is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in an administrative user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.0.2.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.2.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Stefan Esser

Changelog:
2006-10-26: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_112006.136.html



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