TITLE:
Dokeos Course Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13794

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13794/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Dokeos 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4508/

DESCRIPTION:
bratax has reported a vulnerability in Dokeos, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Various input passed when creating a new course 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
course is viewed.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.5.5 and prior.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
bratax

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://users.pandora.be/bratax/advisories/b004.html

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