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TITLE:
Websense "username" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28019

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28019/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

REVISION:
1.1 originally posted 2007-12-11

SOFTWARE:
Websense 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/8077/

DESCRIPTION:
Dave Lewis has reported a vulnerability in Websense Enterprise and
Websense Web Security Suite, which can be exploited by malicious
people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "username" form field in the logon page of the
Websense Reporting Tools 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 Websense Enterprise and Websense Web
Security Suite versions 6.3.x.

SOLUTION:
Apply the vendor patch.
http://www.mywebsense.com/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dave Lewis

CHANGELOG:
2007-12-12: Added CVE reference.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Websense:
http://www.websense.com/SupportPortal/SupportKbs/1840.aspx

Dave Lewis:
http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/12/10/advisory-websense-xss-vulnerability/

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