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Secunia Advisory SA23980

Movable Type Cross-Site Scripting and Security Bypass
Secunia Advisory SA23980
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2007-01-29
Last Update 2007-06-26
   
Popularity 7,594 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Workaround
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Software:
Movable Type 3.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-0604 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2007-3342 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

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
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

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

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