Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been discovered in KloNews, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
KloNews "cat" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38268
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38268/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in KloNews, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "cat" parameter in cat.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 vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.0. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
cr4wl3r
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/1001-exploits/klonews-xss.txt
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