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TITLE:
HTML Purifier Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39613

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39613/

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

Certain unspecified input 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.

Note: Successful exploitation may require that the victim is using
Internet Explorer.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.1.0.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Mario Heiderich.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://htmlpurifier.org/news/2010/0426-4.1-released

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