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cPanel Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA22555
Release Date: 2006-10-25
Last Update: 2006-10-31
Popularity: 7,353 views

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

Software:cPanel 10.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-5535


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

Input passed to the "theme" parameter in scripts/dosetmytheme and to the "template" parameter in scripts2/editzonetemplate in WebHost Manager 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 version WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0 R50. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to cPanel version 10.9.0 R56 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Crackers_Child

Changelog:
2006-10-31: Added CVE reference.


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