TITLE:
Absolute Live Support XE Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19415

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19415/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Absolute Live Support XE 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/8929/

DESCRIPTION:
r0t has reported a vulnerability in Absolute Live Support XE, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion
attacks.

Input passed to the "Session Topic" field when a user requests for
support isn't properly sanitised before being displayed in the Live
Monitor. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script
code in a user's browser session in context of an affected website
when a malicious request is displayed in the Live Monitor.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0. Other versions
may also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
r0t

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2006/03/absolute-live-support-xe-v20-xss-vuln.html

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