JAWS Glossary HTML Injection Vulnerability

BID:13254

Info

JAWS Glossary HTML Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13254
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 19 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 19 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovered by Paulino Calderon.
Vulnerable: JAWS JAWS 0.5 beta2
JAWS JAWS 0.4
JAWS JAWS 0.3
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

JAWS Glossary HTML Injection Vulnerability

JAWS is prone to an HTML injection vulnerability in the Glossary module. The module fails to sanitize user-supplied input.

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

Exploit / POC

JAWS Glossary HTML Injection Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

JAWS Glossary HTML Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
A fix to address this issue is available in the svn repository version.

References

JAWS Glossary HTML Injection Vulnerability

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