KnowledgeTree Open Source Cross-Site Scripting

Thursday, 9 August 2007

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in KnowledgeTree Open Source, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to certain parameters and fields (e.g. in the login page) 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 a vulnerable site.

The vulnerability is reported in version 3.4 and 3.4.1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 3.4.2.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in a bug by criquelion.

Original Advisory:
http://support.ktdms.com/browse/KTS-2178

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=530698

http://secunia.com/advisories/26333/