Secunia Security Advisory - Cyrill Brunschwiler has reported a vulnerability in DokuWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
DokuWiki "spell_utf8test()" Cross-Site Scripting
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26150
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26150/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
DokuWiki
http://secunia.com/product/4910/
DESCRIPTION:
Cyrill Brunschwiler has reported a vulnerability in DokuWiki, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "spell_utf8test()" function in spellcheck.php is
not properly sanitised before it is 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, but only affects
Microsoft Internet Explorer users.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2007-06-26.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2007-06-26b:
http://www.splitbrain.org/go/dokuwiki
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by Cyrill Brunschwiler, Compass Security.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.splitbrain.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=1195
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