Secunia Security Advisory - Two vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP-Fusion, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
PHP-Fusion Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18949
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18949/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Unknown
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
PHP-Fusion 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/5291/
PHP-Fusion 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4758/
PHP-Fusion 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/3803/
DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP-Fusion, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "shout_name" field in "shoutbox_panel.php" and
certain fields in "comments_include.php" 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.
An unspecified weakness in the handling of the "srch_text" parameter
passed to "messages.php" has also been reported.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 6.00.303. Prior
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.00.304.
http://www.php-fusion.co.uk/downloads.php?cat_id=3
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.php-fusion.co.uk/news.php?readmore=307
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