Secunia Security Advisory - ilmila has discovered a vulnerability in Plone, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.
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TITLE:
Plone LiveSearch Module News Item Script Insertion
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28293
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28293/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Plone 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/16451/
DESCRIPTION:
ilmila has discovered a vulnerability in Plone, which can be
exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed to e.g. the "Description" field when creating a "News
Item" is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be
exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is then
executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site
when displaying LiveSearch results.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.0.3. Prior versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.0.4.
http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/3.0.4
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
ilmila
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7439
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