Secunia Security Advisory - Edi Strosar has reported a vulnerability in Element CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Element CMS "s" Cross-Site Scripting
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26080
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26080/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Element CMS
http://secunia.com/product/14795/
DESCRIPTION:
Edi Strosar has reported a vulnerability in Element CMS, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "s" parameter when performing a search 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 the context of an affected site.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Edi Strosar
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