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TITLE:
Serendipity Remote RSS Sidebar Plugin Script Insertion

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28012

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28012/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

REVISION:
1.1 originally posted 2007-12-10

SOFTWARE:
Serendipity 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12371/
Serendipity 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/3969/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Serendipity, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script-insertion attacks.

Input passed via links in RSS feeds is not properly sanitised in the
Remote RSS sidebar plugin before being used. This can be exploited to
insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is then executed in a
user's browser session in context of an affected site when malicious
RSS feeds are viewed.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.2.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.1.
http://www.s9y.org/12.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Hanno Böck.

CHANGELOG:
2007-12-12: Added CVE reference.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/187-Serendipity-1.2.1-released.html

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