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TITLE:
Movable Type Cross-Site Scripting and Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23980

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23980/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Movable Type 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5753/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Movable Type, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions
and conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Certain malformed input is not properly sanitised before being
returned to a user. This can be exploited to execute HTML and script
code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Note: This may affect Internet Explorer only.

2) An unspecified error exists within the handling of the
"MTCommentPreviewIsStatic" tag, which can be exploited to gain access
to the comment entry screen.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.34 beta.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerabilities are fixed in the latest version of 3.34 beta.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) teracci2002
2) Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/beta/distros/MT-3.34-beta-Release-Notes.html

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