Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in WikkaWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information and to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
WikkaWiki Information Disclosure and Cross-Site Scripting
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25181
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25181/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
WikkaWiki 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/6507/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in WikkaWiki, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive
information and to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed to the "name" parameter in UserSettings 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.
2) An error in the "RecentChanges" feature can be exploited to
disclose certain private pages via the RSS feed.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.1.6.3.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.1.6.3.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
1) sakura
2) anonymous
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wikkawiki.org/WikkaReleaseNotes
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