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Crafty Syntax Live Help Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory: SA29201  
Release Date: 2008-03-03
Last Update: 2008-03-11

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

Software:Crafty Syntax Live Help 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1183 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Crafty Syntax Live Help, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to unspecified parameters in livehelp.php, user_questions.php, lostsheep.php, and leavemessage.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 2.14.6.

Solution:
Update to version 2.14.6.

Provided and/or discovered by:
david.rpimaging

Changelog:
2008-03-11: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=580994



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