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phpFreeChat "cmd" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA42437
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Release Date 2010-12-10
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Cross Site Scripting
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Software:
phpFreeChat 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
Description
A vulnerability has been discovered in phpFreeChat, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "cmd" parameter to index.php (when "pfc_ajax" is set and "f" is set to "handleRequest") 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.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.3. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
Provided and/or discovered by
Zsolt Imre