Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OrangeHRM, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, and by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
OrangeHRM Cross-Site Scripting and Security Bypass
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34873
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34873/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OrangeHRM, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks, and by malicious users to bypass certain security
restrictions.
1) Input passed via an unspecified parameter and via the report name
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.
2) Multiple unspecified errors can be exploited by "ESS" users to
view or edit "Time Mod", "Benefits Mod", "Leave Mod", "PIM Mod", or
"Admin Mod" information.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.4.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.4.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=678118
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