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MoinMoin Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24138  
Release Date: 2007-02-12
Last Update: 2007-05-18

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

Software:MoinMoin 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-0901 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-0902 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-2423 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-2637 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
En Douli has discovered some vulnerabilities in MoinMoin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Input passed to the "hitcounts" and "general" parameter in Info pages is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

2) Input passed to the "do" parameter (when "action" is set to "AttachFile") is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Additionally, the "Show debugging information" feature may disclose certain sensitive system information.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.5.7. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.5.8.
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinDownload

Provided and/or discovered by:
En Douli, hello OaiTeam

Changelog:
2007-02-14: Added CVE reference.
2007-04-27: Added vulnerability #2.
2007-05-07: Added CVE reference.
2007-05-14: Updated "Solution" section.
2007-05-18: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
MoinMoin:
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinRelease1.5/CHANGES



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7 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. MoinMoin Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
2. MoinMoin Multiple Vulnerabilities
3. MoinMoin Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
4. MoinMoin Unspecified Search ACL Security Bypass Vulnerability
5. MoinMoin Unspecified Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
6. MoinMoin Administrative Group Name Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
7. MoinMoin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


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