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Adobe RoboHelp Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA25211
Release Date: 2007-05-09
Last Update: 2007-05-14
Popularity: 4,992 views

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

Software:Adobe RoboHelp 6.x
Adobe RoboHelp Server 6.x
Macromedia RoboHelp Office X5

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1280


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

Input passed via the URL to files generated by RoboHelp 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 RoboHelp X5, RoboHelp 6, and RoboHelp Server 6.

Solution:
Apply updates (see vendor advisory for details).

-- RoboHelp 6 and RoboHelp X5 --

WebHelp:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/security/bulletins/apsb07-10/webhelp.zip

FlashHelp or FlashHelp Pro:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/security/bulletins/apsb07-10/flashhelp.zip

-- RoboHelp Server 6 --

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/se...etins/apsb07-10/robohelp_server_6.zip

Provided and/or discovered by:
Michael Domberg, Devtarget.org

Changelog:
2007-05-14: Added link to devtarget.org advisory.

Original Advisory:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-10.html

devtarget.org:
http://www.devtarget.org/adobe-advisory-05-2007.txt


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