Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in action/AttachFile.py in MoinMoin before 1.8.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an AttachFile action to the WikiSandBox component with (1) the rename parameter or (2) the drawing parameter (aka the basename variable).

Secunia reports :

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in MoinMoin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to multiple parameters in action/AttachFile.py 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 the context of an affected site.

Certain input passed to security/antispam.py 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 the context of an affected site.

Fernando Quintero discovered than MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when processing login requests, resulting in cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain. This issue affected Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2008-0780)

Fernando Quintero discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when attaching files, resulting in cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. This issue affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.10 and 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2008-0781)

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when processing user forms. A remote attacker could submit crafted cookie values and overwrite arbitrary files via directory traversal.
This issue affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.10 and 8.04 LTS.
(CVE-2008-0782)

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when editing pages, resulting in cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 7.10. (CVE-2008-1098)

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly enforce access controls, which could allow a remoter attacker to view private pages.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 7.10. (CVE-2008-1099)

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when attaching files and using the rename parameter, resulting in cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. (CVE-2009-0260)

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when displaying error messages after processing spam, resulting in cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. (CVE-2009-0312).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update moin to 1.6.4. Fix the following CVEs: CVE-2008-0781 (again), CVE-2008-3381, CVE-2009-0260, CVE-2009-0312. Fix AttachFile escaping problems, upstream 1.7 changeset 5f51246a4df1 backported.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Secunia reports :

Input passed to multiple parameters in action/AttachFile.py 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 the context of an affected site.

Certain input passed to security/antispam.py 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 the context of an affected site.

It was discovered that the AttachFile action in moin, a python clone of WikiWiki, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks (CVE-2009-0260 ). Another cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in the antispam feature (CVE-2009-0312 ).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
38764	FreeBSD : moinmoin -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities (fc4d0ae8-3fa3-11de-a3fd-0030843d3802)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
38011	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : moin vulnerabilities (USN-716-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
37870	Fedora 10 : moin-1.6.4-1.fc10 (2009-3868)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
36211	Fedora 9 : moin-1.6.4-1.fc9 (2009-3845)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
35563	FreeBSD : moinmoin -- multiple XSS vulnerabilities (6a523dba-eeab-11dd-ab4f-0030843d3802)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
35550	Debian DSA-1715-1 : moin - insufficient input sanitising	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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