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MoinMoin Advanced Search Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA31135
Release Date: 2008-07-21
Last Update: 2008-08-01
Popularity: 1,186 views

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

Software:MoinMoin 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-3381


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in MoinMoin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via multiple parameters to macro/AdvancedSearch.py is not properly sanitised before being returned to the 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 1.6.3 and 1.7. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.7.1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Emanuele Gentili, Ubuntu.

Changelog:
2008-08-01: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes#moin1.7.0


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