Secunia Security Advisory - Omid has discovered a vulnerability in PostNuke, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
PostNuke "cover" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23849
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23849/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
PostNuke 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/350/
DESCRIPTION:
Omid has discovered a vulnerability in PostNuke, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed in the "cover" parameter through index.php to
modules/Reviews/index.php is not properly sanitised before being
returned to the user when previewing reviews. This can be exploited
to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session
in context of an affected site.
Successful exploitation requires that the target user is logged in.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.764. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the Subversion repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Omid
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