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Claroline Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA26685  
Release Date: 2007-09-03
Last Update: 2007-09-10

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Claroline 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-4717 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-4718 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-4741 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-4742 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Claroline, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting or to disclose sensitive information.

1) Input passed to the "sort" and "dir" parameters in admin/adminusers.php, to the "action" parameter in admin/advancedUserSearch.php, and to the "view" parameter in admin/campusProblem.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

2) Input passed to the "language" parameter in inc/lib/language.lib.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.8.6.

Solution:
Update to version 1.8.6.
http://www.claroline.net/download/stable.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Fernando Munoz.

Changelog:
2007-09-06: Added CVE reference.
2007-09-10: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.claroline.net/wiki/index.php/Changelog_1.8.x#Security
1) http://www.claroline.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13448
2) http://www.claroline.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13533



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