DansGuardian Denied URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	8876
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 22 2003 12:00AM
Updated:	Oct 22 2003 12:00AM
Credit:	Discovery credited to Richard Maudsley.
Vulnerable:	Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.7.3 -1 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.6.1 -5 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.4.5 -1 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.2.10 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.2.9 -1 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.2.9 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.2.8 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.2.7 -1 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.2.7 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.2.6 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.2.5 Daniel Barron DansGuardian 2 2.2.4 Adelix CensorNet 3.2 Adelix CensorNet 3.1 r6 Adelix CensorNet 3.1 r5 Adelix CensorNet 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

DansGuardian Denied URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A problem has been reported in the handling of some types of input to DansGuardian. This problem may permit an attacker to launch cross-site scripting attacks.

DansGuardian Denied URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

The following proof-of-concept has been made available:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/dansguardian.pl?DENIEDURL=</a><script>alert('Test');window.open+("http://www.example.com")</script>

DansGuardian Denied URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has stated this issue will be resolved in a future release.
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Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

DansGuardian Denied URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• DansGuardian Homepage (Daniel Barron)
  
• CensorNet: Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability ("Richard Maudsley" )
  
• Re: CensorNet: Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability ("Dan Searle" )
  
• Re: CensorNet: Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability ("Richard Maudsley" )