Secunia Security Advisory - r0t has reported a vulnerability in DirectAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
DirectAdmin "name" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38975
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38975/
DESCRIPTION:
r0t has reported a vulnerability in DirectAdmin, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "name" parameter in CMD_DB_VIEW (when "DOMAIN" is
set) 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 version 1.351. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
r0t
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://pridels-team.blogspot.com/2010/03/directadmin-v1351-xss-vuln.html
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