Xitex WebContent M1 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Sunday, 16 March 2008

Description:
Russ McRee has reported a vulnerability in Xitex WebContent M1, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "sid" parameter in redirect.do is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user in an error message in jsp/error.jsp. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Solution:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences with a web proxy.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Russ McRee

Changelog:
2008-03-11: Added CVE reference.

http://secunia.com/advisories/29222/