Secunia Security Advisory - Riyaz Ahemed Walikar has discovered a vulnerability in Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Joomla "search" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39964
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RELEASE DATE:
2010-06-01
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DESCRIPTION:
Riyaz Ahemed Walikar has discovered a vulnerability in Joomla, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "search" parameter in administrator/index.php
(when "option" is set to "com_users", "com_trash", "com_content",
"com_sections", "com_categories", "com_frontpage", "com_messages",
"com_banners", "com_contact", "com_menus" when "task" is set to
"view", "com_newsfeeds", "com_poll", "com_weblinks", "com_modules",
or "com_plugins") 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.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.18 or later.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/314-20100501-core-xss-vulnerabilities-in-back-end.html
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