Secunia Security Advisory - luny has reported a vulnerability in Metalhead Usenet Script, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Metalhead Usenet Script "group" Cross-Site Scripting
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20872
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Metalhead Usenet Script 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/10675/
DESCRIPTION:
luny has reported a vulnerability in Metalhead Usenet Script, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "group" parameter in index.php is not properly
sanitised before being returned to the user via a SQL error message.
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 has been reported in version 0.5. Prior versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.5.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
luny
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