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TITLE:
Tornado Knowledge Retrieval System "p" Cross-Site Scripting
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30623

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30623/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Tornado Knowledge Retrieval System 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/19030/

DESCRIPTION:
unohope has reported a vulnerability in Tornado Knowledge Retrieval
System, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "p" parameter in searcher.exe is not properly
sanitised before being returned to a 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 4.2. Other versions may also
be affected.

SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a web
proxy.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
unohope

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-06/0081.html

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