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TITLE:
DeskPRO "username" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24844

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
DeskPRO 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/12723/

DESCRIPTION:
John Martinelli has reported a vulnerability in DeskPRO, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the "username" parameter in login.php is not properly
sanitised before being returned to a user. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary HTML and script code in the user's browser session
in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.01. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
John Martinelli

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://john-martinelli.com/work/deskpro.txt

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