Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in HTML Purifier, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
HTML Purifier Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39613
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39613/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in HTML Purifier, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Certain unspecified input 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.
Note: Successful exploitation may require that the victim is using
Internet Explorer.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.1.0.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Mario Heiderich.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://htmlpurifier.org/news/2010/0426-4.1-released
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