TITLE:
Claroline Add Course Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14131

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http://secunia.com/advisories/14131/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Claroline 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4607/

DESCRIPTION:
Yiannis Girod has reported a vulnerability in Claroline, which can be
exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to the "wantedCode", "faculte", "intitule",
"languageCourse", "titulaires", and "email" parameters in
"add_course.php" is not properly sanitised before being used. This
can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will
be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site
when the malicious course data are viewed.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.5 through 1.5.3.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch for version 1.5.3:
http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/claroline153fix01.zip

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Yiannis Girod

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