Secunia Security Advisory - Jesus Olmos Gonzalez has reported a vulnerability in wwwstats, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
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TITLE:
wwwstats "link" Script Insertion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28002
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28002/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
wwwstats 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/16866/
DESCRIPTION:
Jesus Olmos Gonzalez has reported a vulnerability in wwwstats, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion
attacks.
Input passed to the "link" parameter in clickstats.php is not
properly sanitised before being stored. This can be exploited to
insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious
data is viewed.
The vulnerability is reported in version 3.21. Prior versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.22.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jesus Olmos Gonzalez
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