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TITLE:
SafeHTML "_writeAttrs()" Quote Handling Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15371

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
SafeHTML 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4527/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in SafeHTML, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the quotes handling of
attributes values in "_writeAttrs()". This may be exploited to bypass
the blocking of dangerous content in HTML in an application using
SafeHTML for parsing HTML code.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.2.
http://pixel-apes.com/safehtml/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Nick Cleaton.

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