Description: Guy Mizrahi has discovered a vulnerability in FeedReader, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed as the "description" of an RSS item is not properly sanitised before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.10. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution: Do not add feeds from untrusted sources.
Provided and/or discovered by: Guy Mizrahi
Changelog: 2007-10-02: Added CVE reference.
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