Secunia Security Advisory - Joshua Morin has discovered two vulnerabilities in PhpGedView, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
PhpGedView login.php Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26628
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26628/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
PhpGedView 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/15506/
DESCRIPTION:
Joshua Morin has discovered two vulnerabilities in PhpGedView, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "username" parameter or the URL query string in
login.php 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 vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 4.1. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joshua Morin
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