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TITLE:
Serendipity Top Referrers Plugin Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29942

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29942/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Serendipity 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12371/

DESCRIPTION:
Hanno Böck has reported a vulnerability in Serendipity, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed via the "Referer" HTTP header is not properly sanitised
before being saved. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML
and script code, which is executed in a user's browser session in
context of an affected site when the malicious data is viewed via the
Top Referrers plugin.

Successful exploitation requires that the Top Referrers plugin is
enabled.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.3.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Hanno Böck

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Serendipity:
http://blog.s9y.org/archives/193-Serendipity-1.3.1-released.html

Hanno Böck:
http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-1385-s9y.html

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