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Secunia Security Advisory 37480

Secunia Security Advisory 37480
Posted Nov 27, 2009
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability and a weakness have been reported in DotNetNuke, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and disclose potentially sensitive information.

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Secunia Security Advisory 37480

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TITLE:
DotNetNuke Cross-Site Scripting and Information Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37480

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37480/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability and a weakness have been reported in DotNetNuke,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site
scripting attacks and disclose potentially sensitive information.

1) Certain unspecified input passed to the search parameters is not
properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited go execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 4.8 through 5.1.4.

2) A weakness is caused due to the install wizard insecurely
displaying certain pages containing version information.

The weakness is reported in versions 4.0 through 5.1.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.2.0 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Scott Bell, Security-Assessment.com.
2) The vendor credits Dan Gilleland, Dynamic Generation Inc.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/News/SecurityPolicy/securitybulletinno30/tabid/1449/Default.aspx
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/News/SecurityPolicy/securitybulletinno31/tabid/1450/Default.aspx

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use those supplied by the vendor.

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