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TITLE:
Geeklog Forum Plugin Search Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31188

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31188/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Forum 2.x (plugin for Geeklog)
http://secunia.com/product/19362/

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

Certain input in the forum search 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.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.7.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Yosuke Yamada of NetAgent Co., Ltd, reported via
JPCERT/CC.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/20080719093147449

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