Nessus Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA25856
Release Date: 2007-06-27
Last Update: 2007-07-20
Popularity: 3,930 views

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

Software:Nessus Vulnerability Scanner 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-3546


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

Unspecified input within the Windows GUI is not properly sanitised before being returned to a user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Solution:
Update to version 3.0.6.
http://www.nessus.org/download/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Fukumori

Changelog:
2007-07-11: Added CVE reference.
2007-07-20: Added link to JVN. Updated "Provided and/or discovered by" section.

Original Advisory:
Nessus:
http://www.nessus.org/news/

JVN:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2334058672/index.html


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