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refbase "headerMsg" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA32815
Release Date: 2008-11-20
Popularity: 778 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:refbase 0.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in refbase, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "headerMsg" parameter in show.php and search.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.9.5.

Solution:
Update to version 0.9.5.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=641612
https://refbase.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/refbase/trunk/ChangeLog


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