Secunia Security Advisory - Joxean Koret has reported some vulnerabilities in GForge, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
GForge Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16253
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16253/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
GForge 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/5451/
DESCRIPTION:
Joxean Koret has reported some vulnerabilities in GForge, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "forum_id" and "group_id" parameters in
"forum.php", the "project_task_id" parameter in "task.php", the "id"
parameter in "detail.php", the "words" parameter in "search/", the
"group_id", "rows", "cols" and "wrap" parameters in "qrs.php", and
fields in the login form isn't properly sanitised 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 vulnerabilities have been reported in version 4.5. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joxean Koret
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