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TITLE:
Subtext Comments Anchor Tag Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32914

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32914/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Subtext 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20618/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in subtext, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Certain input passed via comments is not properly sanitised before
being used within the URL to anchor tag feature. This can be
exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed
in a user's browser session in context of an affected site if
malicious data is viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.0. Other versions may also
be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.1.0.5.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=137896&package_id=181920&release_id=643458

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Adrian Bateman.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/27/subtext-2.1-security-update.aspx

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