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Debian DSA-2522-1 : fckeditor - XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61438

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Synopsis

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

Description

Emilio Pinna discovered a cross site scripting vulnerability in the spellchecker.php page of FCKeditor, a popular HTML/DHTML editor for the web.

Solution

Upgrade the fckeditor packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.6.6-1squeeze1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683418

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/fckeditor

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2522

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61438

File Name: debian_DSA-2522.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:fckeditor, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4000

BID: 54188

DSA: 2522