A vulnerability has been identified in Calcium, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This flaw is due to an input validation error when processing the "EventText" parameter, which could be exploited by attackers to cause malicious scripting code to be executed by the user's browser via a specially crafted event.

Affected Products

Calcium version 3.10.1 and prior

Solution

Disable the "HTML in Events" setting via the "Display Settings" menu.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0724

Credits

Vulnerability reported by KeyShore and KeyYog

Changelog

2006-02-24 : Initial release
2006-02-27 : Updated Solution

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