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Serendipity Security Bypass and Script Insertion Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory: SA29398  
Release Date: 2008-03-18
Last Update: 2008-03-25

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Serendipity 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1066 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-1476 (Secunia mirror)

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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.

1) For more information:
SA29241

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.

Changelog:
2008-03-25: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/192-Sere...-1.3-released-addresses-security.html

Other References:
SA29241:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29241/



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

5 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Serendipity Top Referrers Plugin Script Insertion Vulnerability
2. Serendipity Script Insertion and Cross-Site Scripting
3. Serendipity Remote RSS Sidebar Plugin Script Insertion
4. Serendipity Extended Properties For Entries Security Bypass
5. Serendipity Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


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