Secunia Security Advisory - rjonesx has discovered a vulnerability in Xeobook, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
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TITLE:
Xeobook Guestbook Script Insertion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17159
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17159/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Xeobook 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5846/
DESCRIPTION:
rjonesx has discovered a vulnerability in Xeobook, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed to various fields when signing the guestbook isn't
properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject
arbitrary script code, which will be executed in a user's browser
session in context of an affected site when the malicious guestbook
entry is viewed.
Example:
<b onmouseover=[code]>text</b>
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 0.93. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Configure Xeobook to not allow any HTML tags:
admin.php -> [2] allowed tags
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
rjonesx
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