FreeBSD : horde -- Horde Page Title XSS Vulnerability (396ee517-a607-11d9-ac72-000bdb1444a4)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18901

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Secunia Advisory: SA14730

A vulnerability has been reported in Horde, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed when setting the parent frame's page title via JavaScript 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 has been reported in version 3.0.4-RC2. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.horde.org/archives/announce/2005/000176.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?71a44da7

http://www.nessus.org/u?7a401984

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18901

File Name: freebsd_pkg_396ee517a60711d9ac72000bdb1444a4.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:horde, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:horde-php5, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/29/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0961