Secunia Security Advisory - Sony has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Foswiki, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.
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TITLE:
Foswiki Multiple Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47849
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-02-03
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DESCRIPTION:
Sony has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Foswiki, which can be
exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed via the "text", "FirstName", "LastName",
"OrganisationName", "OrganisationUrl", "Profession", "Country",
"State", "Address", "Location", "Telephone", "VoIP",
"InstantMessagingIM", "Email", "HomePage", and "Comment" parameters
to bin/save/Main/[user] when saving user details is not properly
sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert
arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious
data is being viewed.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.1.4. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Sony.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://st2tea.blogspot.com/2012/02/foswiki-cross-site-scripting.html
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