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Nucleus CMS URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA28680
Release Date: 2008-01-30
Last Update: 2008-02-04
Popularity: 3,139 views

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

Software:Nucleus 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-0497


Description:
Alexandr Polyakov and Stas Svistunovich have reported a vulnerability in Nucleus CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via the URL to e.g. action.php 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.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.32.

Solution:
Update to version 3.32.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Alexandr Polyakov and Stas Svistunovich, Digital Security Research Group

Changelog:
2008-02-04: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.nucleuscms.org/item/3047


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