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@Mail "keywords" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA24155
Release Date: 2007-02-14
Last Update: 2007-03-09
Popularity: 5,295 views

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

Software:@Mail 4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0953


Description:
Lostmon has reported a vulnerability in @Mail, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "keywords" parameter in search.pl 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.

The vulnerability is reported in version 4.61, 4.6, 4.51, 4.03 WebMail for Windows, and 4.11 for Linux. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
The vendor recommends editing search.pl. Please see the vendor's advisory for more details.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Lostmon

Changelog:
2007-02-16: Added CVE reference.
2007-03-09: Updated "Solution" section to include new information from vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2007/02/mail-searchpl-keywords-variable-cross.html

@Mail:
http://kb.atmail.com/view_article.php?num=1107


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