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habari -- Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Affected packages
habari < 0.5.2

Details

VuXML ID 578f6322-c450-11dd-a721-0030843d3802
Discovery 2008-10-17
Entry 2008-12-07

Secunia reports:

Input passed via the "habari_username" parameter when logging in 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.

References

CVE Name CVE-2008-4601
URL http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0810-exploits/habaricms-xss.txt
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/32311/