Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Claroline, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. These issues are caused by input validation errors in the "announcements/messages.php", "auth/lostPassword.php", "auth/profile.php", "calendar/myagenda.php", "group/group.php", "learnPath/learningPath.php", "learnPath/learningPathList.php", "learnPath/module.php", "phpbb/index.php", "tracking/courseLog.php", "tracking/course_access_details.php", "tracking/delete_course_stats.php", "tracking/userLog.php", "tracking/user_access_details.php", "user/user.php", "user/userInfo.php" and "toolaccess_details.php" script when processing user-supplied URLs and parameters, 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

Claroline versions prior to 1.8.11

Solution

Upgrade to Claroline version 1.8.11 :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/claroline/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2167
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615030

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Digital Security Research Group.

ChangeLog

2008-07-23 : Initial release

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