Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Sawmill, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
Sawmill Security Bypass and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15499
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15499/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Sawmill 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/5211/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Sawmill, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks
and bypass certain security restrictions.
1) An unspecified error can be exploited to get administrative
access.
2) An unspecified error can be exploited to add a license without
being authenticated.
3) Input passed to the username in the "Add User" window and the
license key in the licensing page isn't properly sanitised before
being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in an administrator's browser session
in context of a vulnerable site.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 7.1.5. Prior
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 7.1.6.
http://www.sawmill.net/us_downloads.html
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.sawmill.net/version_history7.html
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