Secunia Security Advisory - Marc Ruef has reported a vulnerability in SiteScape Forum, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
SiteScape Forum Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26065
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26065/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
SiteScape Forum 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/10149/
DESCRIPTION:
Marc Ruef has reported a vulnerability in SiteScape Forum, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to certain scripts (e.g. the username when logging in)
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.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 7.3.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 7.3.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Marc Ruef
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.scip.ch/cgi-bin/smss/showadv.pl?id=3159
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