Secunia Security Advisory - munozferna has reported a vulnerability in Claroline, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Claroline "$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25887
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25887/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Claroline 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4607/
DESCRIPTION:
munozferna has reported a vulnerability in Claroline, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed via the URL to index.php and potentially other files 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 file.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.8.4.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.8.4.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
munozferna
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.claroline.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11920
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