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TITLE:
StatusNet "tag stream" Pages Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45538

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-08-11

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

Certain input passed via the URL related to "tag stream" pages 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 0.8.x through 0.9.8.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.9.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Yvan Boily, Mozilla Security Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://status.net/2011/08/02/security-alert-for-all-versions-of-statusnet

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