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TITLE:
Django Authentication Cross-Site Request Forgery

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31729

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31729/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Django 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/13287/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Django, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the Django administration
application not performing any validity checks to verify requests
when re-authenticating the user. This can be exploited to delete and
edit data when a not logged-in user e.g. visits a malicious web site
and is then enticed to log in to the application.

The vulnerability is reported in 0.91.x versions prior to 0.91.3,
0.95.x versions prior to 0.95.4, and 0.96.x versions prior to 0.96.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.91.3, 0.95.4, or 0.96.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Simon Willison.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/02/security/

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