Secunia Security Advisory - Soot has discovered a vulnerability in Contrexx CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Contrexx CMS Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19294
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CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Contrexx CMS 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5426/
DESCRIPTION:
Soot has discovered a vulnerability in Contrexx CMS, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to "$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" is not 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 vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.0.8. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Soot
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://soot.shabgard.org/bugs/Contrexx-CMS.txt
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