oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- DokuWiki -- XSS in DokuWiki's RSS embedding mechanism

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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:55:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Luciano Bello <luciano@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- DokuWiki -- XSS in DokuWiki's RSS
 embedding mechanism

Please use CVE-2011-2510.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- Original Message -----
> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
> 
> it was found that DokuWiki's RSS embedding mechanism did not properly
> escape user-provided links. An attacker could use this flaw to conduct
> cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, potentially leading to arbitrary
> JavaScript code execution.
> 
> References:
> -----------
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631818
> [2]
> http://www.certa.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTA-2011-AVI-366/CERTA-2011-AVI-366.html
> [3]
> http://www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/Hotfix-Release-20110525a-Rincewind
> [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717146
> 
> Solution:
> ---------
> This issue has been addressed in upstream "2011-05-25 Rincewind"
> release:
> [5] http://www.dokuwiki.org/changes
> 
> This issue doesn't seem to have a CVE identifier yet. Could you
> allocate
> one?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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