Serendipity Karma Ranking plugin Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	50516
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Nov 02 2011 12:00AM
Updated:	Nov 02 2011 12:00AM
Credit:	Stefan Schurtz
Vulnerable:	S9Y Serendipity Karma Ranking plugin 1.1 S9Y Serendipity 1.5.5
Not Vulnerable:	S9Y Serendipity 1.6

Serendipity Karma Ranking plugin Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Serendipity Karma Ranking plugin is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

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 and to launch other attacks.

Serendipity Karma Ranking plugin Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

An attacker can exploit these issues by enticing an unsuspecting victim to follow a malicious URI.

The following example URIs are available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/50516.txt

Serendipity Karma Ranking plugin Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Vendor updates are available. Please see the reference for more information.

Serendipity Karma Ranking plugin Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• Serendipity Homepage (S9Y)
  
• Serendipity Plugin 'Karma Ranking' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities ([email protected])