serendipity-xss.txt
Posted on 11 December 2007
Source: http://www.int21.de/cve/CVE-2007-6205-s9y.html Cross site scripting (XSS) in rss feed plugin of Serendipity 1.2 References http://www.s9y.org/ http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6205 Description The Serendipity blog system contains a plugin to display the content of feeds in the sidebar (serendipity_plugin_remoterss). If an attacker can modify the RSS feed, it's possible to inject javascript code in the link part, because it's not correctly escaped. Sample code Sample feed injecting code: <rss version="2.0"> <channel><item><title>foo</title> <link>" onMouseOver="alert(1)</link></item></channel> </rss> Workaround/Fix Serendipity developers have fixed this in svn and all further version, please update to 1.2.1 or above. CVE Information The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the name CVE-2007-6205 to this issue. This is a candidate for inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org/), which standardizes names for security problems. Credits and copyright This vulnerability was discovered by Hanno Boeck of schokokeks.org webhosting. It's licensed under the creative commons attribution license. Hanno Boeck, 2007-12-05, http://www.hboeck.de -- Hanno Böck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/ GPG: 3DBD3B20 Jabber/Mail: hanno@hboeck.de
