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Nucleus Unspecified Script Insertion
Secunia Advisory: SA22843
Release Date: 2006-11-14
Last Update: 2007-01-12
Popularity: 5,959 views

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

Software:Nucleus 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-6920


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Nucleus CMS, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in an administrative user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is viewed.

Successful exploitation requires a valid member account with privileges to change certain settings.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.24.

Solution:
Update to version 3.24.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits JVN.

Changelog:
2007-01-12: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
JVN:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2384656399/index.html

Nucleus:
http://www.nucleuscms.org/item/3044


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