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Posted on 03 June 2011
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TITLE:
Serendipity Freetag Plugin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44770
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-06-03
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DESCRIPTION:
Stefan Schurtz has reported a vulnerability in the Freetag plugin for
Serendipity, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the URL to index.php?/plugin/tag/ is not properly
sanitised in
plugins/serendipity_event_freetag/serendipity_event_freetag.php
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 version 3.20 and 3.21.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.22.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Stefan Schurtz
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Serendipity:
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/231-serendipity_event_freetag-Plugin-update,-XSS-bug.html
Stefan Schurtz:
http://www.rul3z.de/advisories/SSCHADV2011-004.txt
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http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/
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EXPLOIT:
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