Secunia Security Advisory - Mesut Timur has discovered a vulnerability in Redmine, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Redmine Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43999
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-04-08
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DESCRIPTION:
Mesut Timur has discovered a vulnerability in Redmine, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed via the URL is not properly sanitised in
app/views/layouts/base.rhtml 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 1.1.1. Prior versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.1.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Mesut Timur, Mavituna Security.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Redmine:
http://www.redmine.org/news/53
Mavituna Security (NS-11-004):
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/XSS-vulnerability-in-Redmine/
OTHER REFERENCES:
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http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/
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