Redmine 1.1.1 Cross Site Scripting

`Information  
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Name : XSS vulnerability in Redmine  
Software : all Redmine versions from 1.0.1 to 1.1.1  
Vendor Homepage : http://www.redmine.org  
Vulnerability Type : Cross-Site Scripting  
Severity : High  
Researcher : Mesut Timur <mesut [at] mavitunasecurity [dot] com>  
Advisory Reference : NS-11-004  
  
Description  
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Redmine is a flexible project management web application written using  
Ruby on Rails framework.  
  
Details  
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Redmine is affected by a XSS vulnerability in versions from 1.0.1 to 1.1.1.  
Example PoC url is as follows :  
  
http://example.com/projects/hg-helloworld/news/%22onload=%22alert%281%29  
  
  
You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting  
vulnerabilities from here :  
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/crosssite-scripting-xss/  
  
Solution  
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Upgrade to the latest Redmine version (1.1.2).  
  
Credits  
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It has been discovered on testing of Netsparker, Web Application  
Security Scanner - http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/.  
  
References  
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1. Vendor URL: http://www.redmine.org/news/53  
2. MSL Advisory Link :  
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/XSS-vulnerability-in-Redmine/  
3. Netsparker Advisories :  
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/  
  
About Netsparker  
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Netsparker can find and report security issues such as SQL Injection  
and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in all web applications regardless of  
the platform and the technology they are built on. Netsparker's unique  
detection and exploitation techniques allows it to be dead accurate in  
reporting hence it's the first and the only False Positive Free web  
application security scanner.  
  
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Netsparker Advisories, <[email protected]>  
Homepage, http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/  
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