Secunia Security Advisory - Amol Naik has discovered some vulnerabilities in phpMyFAQ, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
phpMyFAQ Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37520
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37520/
DESCRIPTION:
Amol Naik has discovered some vulnerabilities in phpMyFAQ, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed via various parameters to multiple scripts 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.
Examples:
http://[host]/index.php?action=sitemap&lang=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=search&search=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=search&tagging_id=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=artikel&highlight=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=artikel&artlang=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=sitemap&letter=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=show&lang=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=show&cat=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=news&newsid=1&newslang=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=send2friend&artlang=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=send2friend&cat=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=send2friend&id=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=translate&srclang=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=translate&id=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=translate&cat=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=add&cat=[code]
http://[host]/index.php?action=add&question=[code]
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.5.4. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.5.5.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Amol Naik
CHANGELOG:
2009-12-02: Updated "Description" section.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.phpmyfaq.de/advisory_2009-12-01.php
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