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WebGUI User Name Script Insertion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA23754
Release Date: 2007-01-18
Last Update: 2007-01-24
Popularity: 4,621 views

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

Software:WebGUI 7.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0407


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

Input passed as the user name during registration is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is then executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious content is displayed.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 7.3.5 (beta).

Solution:
A patch is available for version 7.0 or later.
http://www.plainblack.com/uploads/LF/80/LF80YmRk89KeOTBEK1FrcA/xss-patch.txt

The vulnerability is fixed in 7.3.5 (beta).

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2007-01-24: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.plainblack.com/bugs/tracke...te-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability


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