TITLE:
Mailman Private Archive Script Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19558

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Mailman 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/1010/

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

Unspecified input passed to the private archive script is not
properly sanitised before being returned to users. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of a vulnerable site.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.1.7. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.1.8rc1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Moritz Naumann.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-April/000084.html

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