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TITLE:
Linksys WRT160N Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32877

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http://secunia.com/advisories/32877/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Linksys WRT160N
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20650/

DESCRIPTION:
David Gil has reported a vulnerability in Linksys WRT160N, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to the "action" parameter in apply.cgi is not properly
sanitised before being returned to the administrator. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in an
administrator's browser session in context of an affected device.

SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a proxy. Do
not browse untrusted websites.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
David Gil

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0811-exploits/linksys-xss.txt

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