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Secunia Security Advisory 35234

Secunia Security Advisory 35234
Posted May 28, 2009
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Vanilla, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

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Secunia Security Advisory 35234

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TITLE:
Vanilla "RequestName" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35234

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35234/

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

Input passed to the "RequestName" parameter in ajax/updatecheck.php
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 1.0.8.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.8.
http://lussumo.com/download.php?Get=Vanilla

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Gerendi Sandor Attila

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Vanilla:
http://lussumo.com/community/discussion/9524/vanilla-118-released/#Item_0

Gerendi Sandor Attila:
http://gsasec.blogspot.com/2009/05/vanilla-v117-cross-site-scripting.html

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use those supplied by the vendor.

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