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FreeBSD : typo3 -- Multiple vulnerabilities in TYPO3 Core (79818ef9-2d10-11e2-9160-00262d5ed8ee)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62957

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Typo Security Team reports :

TYPO3 Backend History Module - Due to missing encoding of user input, the history module is susceptible to SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting. A valid backend login is required to exploit this vulnerability. Credits go to Thomas Worm who discovered and reported the issue.

TYPO3 Backend API - Failing to properly HTML-encode user input the tree render API (TCA-Tree) is susceptible to Cross-Site Scripting.
TYPO3 Versions below 6.0 does not make us of this API, thus is not exploitable, if no third party extension is installed which uses this API. A valid backend login is required to exploit this vulnerability.
Credits go to Richard Brain who discovered and reported the issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a8e68ecf

http://www.nessus.org/u?41c9ee3c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62957

File Name: freebsd_pkg_79818ef92d1011e2916000262d5ed8ee.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 11/19/2012

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:typo3, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2012