Secunia Security Advisory - Steven Roddis has discovered a vulnerability in TorrentFlux, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
TorrentFlux "torrent" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22384
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22384/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
TorrentFlux 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/12225/
DESCRIPTION:
Steven Roddis has discovered a vulnerability in TorrentFlux, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "torrent" parameter in startpop.php 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 is confirmed in version 2.1. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Steven Roddis
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.stevenroddis.com.au/2006/10/13/torrentflux-startpopphp-torrent-script-insertion/
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