Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in the freeCap CAPTCHA (sr_freecap) extension for TYPO3, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
TYPO3 sr_freecap Extension Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31946
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31946/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
freeCap CAPTCHA (sr_freecap) Extension for TYPO3 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19946/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the freeCap CAPTCHA (sr_freecap)
extension for TYPO3, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to an unspecified parameter 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 the
context of an affected site.
The vulnerability is reported in version 1.0.3 and prior.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.4:
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/sr_freecap/1.0.4/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Frank Ruske.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20080924-2/
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