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Secunia Advisory SA30623

Tornado Knowledge Retrieval System "p" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA30623
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Release Date 2008-06-11
Last Update 2008-12-01
   
Popularity 5,318 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Cross Site Scripting
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
Tornado Knowledge Retrieval System 4.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-5264 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

unohope has reported a vulnerability in Tornado Knowledge Retrieval System, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "p" parameter in searcher.exe 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 version 4.2. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a web proxy.

Provided and/or discovered by
unohope

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-06/0081.html

Deep Links
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