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GForge Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA16253  
Release Date: 2005-07-28
Last Update: 2005-08-05

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:GForge 4.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-2430 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Joxean Koret has reported some vulnerabilities in GForge, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "forum_id" and "group_id" parameters in "forum.php", the "project_task_id" parameter in "task.php", the "id" parameter in "detail.php", the "words" parameter in "search/", the "group_id", "rows", "cols" and "wrap" parameters in "qrs.php", and fields in the login form 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 context of an affected site.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 4.5. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Joxean Koret

Changelog:
2005-08-05: Added CVE reference.



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