S9Y Serendipity Remote Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:11790

Info

S9Y Serendipity Remote Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11790
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 02 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 02 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Stefan Esser has been credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: S9Y Serendipity 0.7 beta3
S9Y Serendipity 0.7 beta1
S9Y Serendipity 0.7 -rc1
S9Y Serendipity 0.7 -beta4
S9Y Serendipity 0.7 -beta2
S9Y Serendipity 0.7
S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -rc2
S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -rc1
S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -pl3
S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -pl2
S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -pl1
S9Y Serendipity 0.6
S9Y Serendipity 0.5 -pl1
S9Y Serendipity 0.5
S9Y Serendipity 0.4
S9Y Serendipity 0.3
Not Vulnerable: S9Y Serendipity 0.7.1

Discussion

S9Y Serendipity Remote Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A cross-site scripting vulnerability affects S9Y Serendipity. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input prior to including it in dynamically generated Web content.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary HTML and script code rendered and executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user. This may facilitate theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Exploit / POC

S9Y Serendipity Remote Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

S9Y Serendipity Remote Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an upgrade dealing with this issue.


S9Y Serendipity 0.3

S9Y Serendipity 0.4

S9Y Serendipity 0.5

S9Y Serendipity 0.5 -pl1

S9Y Serendipity 0.6

S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -rc1

S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -pl3

S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -rc2

S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -pl2

S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -pl1

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 -rc1

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 beta1

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 beta3

S9Y Serendipity 0.7

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 -beta4

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 -beta2

References

S9Y Serendipity Remote Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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