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>> Serendipity Top Referrers Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Title : Serendipity Top Referrers Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1348
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1385 - CVE-2008-1386
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-24

Advisory Details

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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 an input validation error in the Top Referrers plugin when handling the "referer" header, 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 site [...]

Affected Products

Serendipity versions prior to 1.3.1

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Hanno Böck.

ChangeLog

2008-04-24 : Initial release

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