S9Y Serendipity Remote RSS sidebar Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:26783

Info

S9Y Serendipity Remote RSS sidebar Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 26783
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2007-6205
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 08 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 24 2008 11:30PM
Credit: Hanno Böck is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: S9Y Serendipity 1.1.4
S9Y Serendipity 1.1.3
S9Y Serendipity 1.1.1
S9Y Serendipity 1.0.4
S9Y Serendipity 1.0.3
S9Y Serendipity 0.9.1
S9Y Serendipity 0.8.2
S9Y Serendipity 0.8.1
S9Y Serendipity 0.8 -beta6 Snapshot
S9Y Serendipity 0.8 -beta6
S9Y Serendipity 0.8 -beta5
S9Y Serendipity 0.8
S9Y Serendipity 0.7.1
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
S9Y Serendipity 1.2-beta5
S9Y Serendipity 1.2
S9Y Serendipity 1.0.beta 3
S9Y Serendipity 1.0.beta 2
Debian Linux 4.0 sparc
Debian Linux 4.0 s/390
Debian Linux 4.0 powerpc
Debian Linux 4.0 mipsel
Debian Linux 4.0 mips
Debian Linux 4.0 m68k
Debian Linux 4.0 ia-64
Debian Linux 4.0 ia-32
Debian Linux 4.0 hppa
Debian Linux 4.0 arm
Debian Linux 4.0 amd64
Debian Linux 4.0 alpha
Debian Linux 4.0
Not Vulnerable: S9Y Serendipity 1.2.1

Discussion

S9Y Serendipity Remote RSS sidebar Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

S9Y Serendipity Remote RSS sidebar plugin is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting this issue allows an attacker to execute arbitrary HTML or script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

This issue affects versions prior to S9Y Serendipity 1.2.1.

Exploit / POC

S9Y Serendipity Remote RSS sidebar Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue by constructing a malicious RSS feed that is embedded into a blog and displayed to users.

Solution / Fix

S9Y Serendipity Remote RSS sidebar Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an update to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


S9Y Serendipity 1.2-beta5

S9Y Serendipity 1.0.beta 2

S9Y Serendipity 1.2

S9Y Serendipity 1.0.beta 3

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 -pl2

S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -pl1

S9Y Serendipity 0.6 -rc2

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 beta3

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 -rc1

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 beta1

S9Y Serendipity 0.7

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 -beta4

S9Y Serendipity 0.7 -beta2

S9Y Serendipity 0.7.1

S9Y Serendipity 0.8

S9Y Serendipity 0.8 -beta5

S9Y Serendipity 0.8 -beta6 Snapshot

S9Y Serendipity 0.8 -beta6

S9Y Serendipity 0.8.1

S9Y Serendipity 0.8.2

S9Y Serendipity 0.9.1

S9Y Serendipity 1.0.3

S9Y Serendipity 1.0.4

S9Y Serendipity 1.1.1

S9Y Serendipity 1.1.3

S9Y Serendipity 1.1.4

References

S9Y Serendipity Remote RSS sidebar Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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