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TITLE:
TYPO3 WEC Discussion Forum Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30905

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CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
WEC Discussion Forum (wec_discussion) Extension for TYPO3 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/19218/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the WEC Discussion Forum
(wec_discussion) extension for TYPO3, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks or
compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An input validation error when processing certain file types can
be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

2) Input passed to unspecified parameters 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.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.6.2 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.6.3.
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/wec_discussion/1.6.3/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Markus Angerer.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20080701-4/

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