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TITLE:
MoinMoin Advanced Search Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31135

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31135/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
MoinMoin 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/2579/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in MoinMoin, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via multiple parameters to macro/AdvancedSearch.py 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 vulnerability is reported in versions 1.6.3 and 1.7. Prior
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.7.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Emanuele Gentili, Ubuntu.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes#moin1.7.0

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