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>> Serendipity Trackbacks Handling Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Title : Serendipity Trackbacks Handling Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0925
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1476
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-19


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A vulnerability has been identified in Serendipity, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This issue is caused by input validation errors when processing Trackbacks data, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected Web site.

Affected Products

Serendipity versions prior to 1.3

Solution

Upgrade to Serendipity version 1.3 :
http://www.s9y.org/12.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0925
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/192-Serendipity-1.3-released-addresses-security.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Peter Hüwe.

ChangeLog

2008-03-19 : Initial release

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