Advisories » Magnolia Enterprise Edition Sitedesigner "query" Parameter Handling Remote Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Release Date:	23/04/2008	Severity:	Less Critical
SecWatch Advisory:	SWID1021002	Cause:	Input validation error
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch	Impact:	Cross Site Scripting
Exploit Status:	None Available	Access Vector:	From remote
Affected Software:	Magnolia Enterprise Edition 3.x
Original Advisory:	http://jira.magnolia.info/browse/MGNLSD-175 (requires login)
CVE:	CVE-2008-1953
Secunia:	SA29918
Bugtraq ID:	BID#28897

Description:

An input validation vulnerability in Magnolia Enterprise Edition has been reported, which can be exploited by remote users to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

User-supplied input passed to the "query" parameter via the Magnolia Enterprise Edition Sitedesigner search template script is not properly sanitised before being returned to a user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in the security context of an affected website, as a result the code will be able to access any of the target user's cookies, access data recently submitted by the target user via web form to the site, or take actions on the site acting as the target user.

Affected:

Magnolia versions prior to 1.1.5.

Solution:

Update to Sitedesigner version 1.1.5.
http://files.magnolia.info/

Credits:

Russ McRee

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