TellMe Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	15012
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 05 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Oct 05 2005 12:00AM
Credit:	Donnie Werner is credited with the discovery of this vulnerabiilty.
Vulnerable:	TellMe TellMe 1.2
Not Vulnerable:	TellMe TellMe 1.3

TellMe Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

TellMe is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. This is due to a lack of proper sanitization of user-supplied input.

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

TellMe Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

No exploit is required.

An example has been provided:

http://[host]/tellme/index.php?q_Host=<iframe> src=http://whatismyip.com></iframe>

TellMe Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released version 1.3 to address this issue.


TellMe TellMe 1.2

• TellMe tellme-1.3_php3.txt
  http://kimihia.org.nz/projects/tellme/files/tellme-1.3_php3.txt

TellMe Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• TellMe README file/changelog (TellMe )
  
• TellMe Web Site (TellMe)