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TITLE:
Claroline Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26685

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26685/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Claroline 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4607/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Claroline, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting or to
disclose sensitive information.

1) Input passed to the "sort" and "dir" parameters in
admin/adminusers.php, to the "action" parameter in
admin/advancedUserSearch.php, and to the "view" parameter in
admin/campusProblem.php is not properly sanitised before being
returned to the user. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML
and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected
site. 

2) Input passed to the "language" parameter in
inc/lib/language.lib.php is not properly verified before being used
to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files
from local resources.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.8.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.8.6.
http://www.claroline.net/download/stable.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Fernando Munoz.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.claroline.net/wiki/index.php/Changelog_1.8.x#Security
1) http://www.claroline.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13448
2) http://www.claroline.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13533

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