TITLE:
cPanel "numdays" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18691

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18691/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
cPanel 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/5280/

DESCRIPTION:
$um$id has reported a vulnerability in cPanel, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "numdays" parameter in "webmailaging.cgi" 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.

Example:
http://[victim]:2095/webmailaging.cgi?numdays=[code]&ageaction=change

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
$um$id

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