Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Open WebMail, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Open WebMail openwebmail-read.pl Cross-Site Scripting
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20714
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20714/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Open WebMail 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3167/
Open WebMail 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/793/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Open WebMail, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "To" and "From" name and address in
openwebmail-read.pl 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.
SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in the SVN repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
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