TITLE:
Alkacon OpenCms Login Page Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18046

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18046/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Alkacon OpenCms 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/6531/

DESCRIPTION:
Marc Ruef has reported a vulnerability in Alkacon OpenCms, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the user name field in the login page isn't 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.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 6.0.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.0.3.
http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/download/opencms.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Marc Ruef

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.scip.ch/cgi-bin/smss/showadvf.pl?id=1910

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