FreeBSD : moinmoin -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities (6a523dba-eeab-11dd-ab4f-0030843d3802)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35563

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Secunia reports :

Input passed to multiple parameters in action/AttachFile.py 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 the context of an affected site.

Certain input passed to security/antispam.py 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 the context of an affected site.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/file/c76d50dac855

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/rev/89b91bf87dad

http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes#moin1.8.1

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8722d6d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35563

File Name: freebsd_pkg_6a523dbaeeab11ddab4f0030843d3802.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 2/1/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:moinmoin, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0260, CVE-2009-0312

CWE: 79

Secunia: 33593