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TITLE:
Sphider Suggestion Feature "query" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30082

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30082/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Sphider 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/9337/

DESCRIPTION:
Christian Holler has reported a vulnerability in Sphider, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the "query" parameter in search.php when the
suggestion feature is enabled is not properly sanitised before being
returned to a 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 affects versions prior to 1.3.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.4.
http://www.sphider.eu/download.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Christian Holler

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Christian Holler:
http://users.own-hero.net/~decoder/advisories/sphider134-xss.txt

Sphider:
http://www.sphider.eu/forum/read.php?2,4121

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