Vanilla 1.1.4 HTML Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	30748
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-3758
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Aug 19 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:24PM
Credit:	James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team
Vulnerable:	Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.3 Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.1 Lussumo Vanilla 1.0
Not Vulnerable:	Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.5 RC1

Vanilla 1.1.4 HTML Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Vanilla is prone to multiple HTML-injection vulnerabilities and a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, control how the site is rendered to the user, or launch other attacks.

Vanilla 1.1.4 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Vanilla 1.1.4 HTML Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Attackers can exploit these issues through a browser. To exploit the cross-site scripting issue, attackers must entice an unsuspecting user to follow a malicious URI.

The following example URI is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/30748.html

Vanilla 1.1.4 HTML Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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

Vanilla 1.1.4 HTML Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• Vanilla Product Page (Lussumo)
  
• Vanilla <= 1.1.4 Script Injection/ XSS ( GulfTech Security Research )
  
• [Sticky] Vanilla 1.1.5 release candidate 1 (Lussumo)