phpMyFAQ Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA37520

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/37520/

DESCRIPTION: Amol Naik has discovered some vulnerabilities in phpMyFAQ, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via various parameters to multiple scripts is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of an affected site.

Examples: http://[host]/index.php?action=sitemap&lang=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=search&search=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=search&tagging_id=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=artikel&highlight=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=artikel&artlang=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=sitemap&letter=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=show&lang=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=show&cat=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=news&newsid=1&newslang=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=send2friend&artlang=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=send2friend&cat=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=send2friend&id=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=translate&srclang=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=translate&id=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=translate&cat=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=add&cat=[code] http://[host]/index.php?action=add&question=[code]

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.5.4. Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION: Update to version 2.5.5.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Amol Naik

CHANGELOG: 2009-12-02: Updated "Description" section.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.phpmyfaq.de/advisory_2009-12-01.php

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