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Movable Type Cross-Site Scripting and Security Bypass Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA23980  
Release Date: 2007-01-29
Last Update: 2007-06-26

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:Movable Type 3.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-0604 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-3342 (Secunia mirror)



Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Movable Type, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Certain malformed input is not properly sanitised before being returned to a user. This can be exploited to execute HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Note: This may affect Internet Explorer only.

2) An unspecified error exists within the handling of the "MTCommentPreviewIsStatic" tag, which can be exploited to gain access to the comment entry screen.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.34 beta.

Solution:
The vulnerabilities are fixed in the latest version of 3.34 beta.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) teracci2002
2) Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2007-02-02: Added CVE reference.
2007-06-26: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/beta/distros/MT-3.34-beta-Release-Notes.html



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3 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Movable Type "nofollow" Plugin Comment Script Insertion
2. Movable Type Search Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting
3. Movable Type Multiple Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities


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