Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Movable Type, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
20247b426fd8aaf249fadd882a7ec41979b9fc6da675613bba91d95ce591a3e4
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Secunia is pleased to announce the release of the annual Secunia
report for 2008.
Highlights from the 2008 report:
* Vulnerability Research
* Software Inspection Results
* Secunia Research Highlights
* Secunia Advisory Statistics
Request the full 2008 Report here:
http://secunia.com/advisories/try_vi/request_2008_report/
Stay Secure,
Secunia
----------------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE:
Movable Type Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34886
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34886/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Movable Type, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Certain unspecified input 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 versions prior to 4.25.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.25. Please see the vendor's advisory for more
information.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported via JVN.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Movable Type:
http://www.movabletype.jp/blog/security-info_mt424.html
JVN:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN97248625/index.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------
About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.
Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/
Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/
Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.
----------------------------------------------------------------------