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TITLE:
Serendipity Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22501

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Serendipity 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/3969/
Serendipity 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12371/

DESCRIPTION:
Stefan Esser has reported some vulnerabilities in Serendipity, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to unspecified parameters in the administration backend
is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can
be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in an
administrative user's browser session in context of an affected
site.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.0.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Stefan Esser

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_112006.136.html

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