Secunia Security Advisory - A weakness has been discovered in Konqueror, which can potentially exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Konqueror HTML Parsing Weakness
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23932
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Konqueror 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/3166/
DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been discovered in Konqueror, which can potentially
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
The weakness is caused due to an error in the parsing of comments
within certain tags of an HTML document. Arbitrary HTML and script
code in a comment tag is executed in a user's browser session when
preceded by the corresponding closing tag (e.g. the title tag).
Successful exploitation is possible on web sites that allow users to
insert unsanitised HTML and script code within a comment into such a
tag.
The weakness is confirmed in Konqueror 3.5.5. Other versions may also
be affected.
SOLUTION:
Do not browse untrusted sites.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Originally discovered in Safari by Jose Avila III.
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