Security Advisory SA49287 - RSSOwl Feed Parsing Script Insertion Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA49287

RSSOwl Feed Parsing Script Insertion Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA49287

Release Date

2012-05-25

Last Update

2012-06-08

Popularity

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Comments

3 comments

Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Cross Site Scripting

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Approve distribution

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

RSSOwl 2.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2012-1252 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in RSSOwl, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Certain input related to the author name and email when displaying feed information is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.1. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 2.1.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
JVN credits Daiki Fukumori, Cyber Defense Institute.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN77947437/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2012/JVNDB-2012-000048.html

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Secunia Advisory SA49287

RSSOwl Feed Parsing Script Insertion Vulnerability

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