Re: CVE-request: Serendipity 'serendipity[filter][bp.ALT]' Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

On 12/04/2011 12:07 PM, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Am Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:24:19 -0700
> schrieb Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>:
>
> > My mistake, this should have been merged into CVE-2011-4090, it's the
> > same vuln type (XSS) and the same version of Serendipity,
> > CVE-2011-4365 is a bad assignment and should be marked as a duplicate
> > of CVE-2011-4090.
> I'd disagree on that.
>
> CVE-2011-4090 is in an (optional) plugin, while CVE-2011-4365 is an
> issue in the main s9y code.
>
> Although the plugin is shipped with the core s9y, the impact is quite
> different. For 4090, you only need to care if you do something with the
> karma-plugin.
Correct me if I'm wrong though but in the plugin advisory it says the
fix is to upgrade serendipity to 1.6? If so then it looks like the
problem is more back end than plugin.

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-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team