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Bugzilla Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA24031
Release Date: 2007-02-05
Last Update: 2007-02-09
Popularity: 6,363 views

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

Software:Bugzilla 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0791


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Bugzilla, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to certain fields (e.g. the realname field) is not properly sanitised before being used to generate Atom feeds. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's atom feed reader in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.20.4, 2.22.2, and 2.23.4.

Solution:
Update to version 2.20.4, 2.22.2, or 2.23.4

Provided and/or discovered by:
Olav Vitters

Changelog:
2007-02-09: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.20.3/


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