TITLE:
dadaIMC "Post An Article" Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12955

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12955/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
dadaIMC 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4139/

DESCRIPTION:
Elac has discovered a vulnerability in dadaIMC, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to "newswire/index.php" when posting an article is not
properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject
arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious
news article is viewed.

The vulnerability has been confirmed on version 0.98.1. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Elac

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.rightwingextremist.net/main/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=2

OTHER REFERENCES:
OSVDB:
http://www.osvdb.org/11052

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