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TITLE:
ajax-spell Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15737

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
AJAX Spell Checker (ajax-spell) 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5258/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ajax-spell, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed in HTML tag entities is not properly sanitised before
being returned to users. This can potentially be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.7. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.9 or later.

NOTE:  Users should not update to version 1.8, as the vendor
introduced a bug in this version when fixing the vulnerability.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Jake Olefsky.

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