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TITLE:
CuteNews Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14437

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14437/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
CuteNews 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1798/

DESCRIPTION:
FraMe has reported a vulnerability in CuteNews, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

The "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR" environment variable is used without
sanitation when posting comments. This can be exploited to inject
arbitrary HTML and script code, which will get executed in an
administrator's browser session in context of an affected site, when
the administrator views the comments.

It is also possible to injection arbitrary PHP code into a certain
file. However, access to this file is by default restricted to
localhost using ".htaccess".

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.3.6. Other versions
may also be vulnerable.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
FraMe

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.kernelpanik.org/docs/kernelpanik/cutenews.txt

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