Secunia Security Advisory - Russ McRee has reported a vulnerability in Silva, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Silva "fulltext" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32585
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32585/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Silva 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20437/
Silva 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20438/
DESCRIPTION:
Russ McRee has reported a vulnerability in Silva, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed via the "fulltext" parameter to the Silva Find component
when performing a search 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 Silva Find version 1.1.5 and prior
included in Silva prior to 2.1.0.2, 2.0.12.2, and 1.6.3.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.1.0.2, 2.0.12.2, or 1.6.3.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Russ McRee, HolisticInfoSec
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://holisticinfosec.org/content/view/91/45/
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