Secunia Security Advisory - Matthew Cook has reported a vulnerability in MetaLib, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
MetaLib Keyword Search Cross-Site Scripting
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26162
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26162/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
MetaLib 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/14837/
DESCRIPTION:
Matthew Cook has reported a vulnerability in MetaLib, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to unknown parameters related to keyword searches in
unspecified scripts 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.
Successful exploitation requires knowledge of a valid resource ID.
The vulnerability is related to:
SA26041
The vulnerability is reported in version 3.13. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a web proxy.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Matthew Cook
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://escarpment.net/exlibris.txt
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA26041:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26041/
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