Secunia Security Advisory - s3rv3r_hack3r has reported a vulnerability in cPanel, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
cPanel "password" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24106
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24106/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
REVISION:
1.1 originally posted 2007-02-13
SOFTWARE:
cPanel 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/5280/
DESCRIPTION:
s3rv3r_hack3r has reported a vulnerability in cPanel, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "password" parameter in scripts/passwdmysql
within WHM (WebHost Manager) 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:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a web proxy.
Do not follow links from untrusted sources.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
s3rv3r_hack3r
CHANGELOG:
2007-02-13: Added CVE reference.
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