Secunia Security Advisory - Russ McRee has discovered a vulnerability in Simple Gallery, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Simple Gallery "album" Cross-Site Scripting
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29646
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Simple Gallery 2.x
https://secunia.com/product/18176/
DESCRIPTION:
Russ McRee has discovered a vulnerability in Simple Gallery, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "album" parameter in index.php 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.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.2. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Russ McRee
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