Description: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Serendipity, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks and bypass certain security restrictions.
A vulnerability is caused due to the usage of vulnerable Smarty code.
2) Input sent as trackbacks is not properly sanitised before being stored. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is viewed.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.2.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution: Update to version 1.3.
Provided and/or discovered by: 2) The vendor credits Peter Hüwe.
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