TITLE:
PmWiki "q" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17707

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17707/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PmWiki 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/6195/

DESCRIPTION:
Moritz Naumann has reported a vulnerability in PmWiki, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the "q" parameter when performing a search 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 vulnerability has been reported in versions 2.0 through 2.0.12.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.13.
http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Moritz Naumann IT Consulting & Services

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://moritz-naumann.com/adv/0005/pmwiki/0005.txt

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