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TITLE:
phpMyFAQ Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31845

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31845/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
phpMyFAQ 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19800/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in phpMyFAQ, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input containing the "/" character as replacement for a space
character is not properly sanitised and can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session.

Successful exploitation requires that the victim's browser handles
"/" as space characters.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.0.8.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.8.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Alexios Fakos

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
phpMyFAQ:
http://www.phpmyfaq.de/advisory_2008-09-11.php

oCERT:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-012.html

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