[SA13869] SafeHTML Hexadecimal HTML Entities Security Bypass

TITLE:
SafeHTML Hexadecimal HTML Entities Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13869

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
SafeHTML 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4527/

DESCRIPTION:
Christian Stocker has reported a vulnerability in SafeHTML, which can
be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of
hexadecimal HTML entities. This can be exploited to bypass the
blocking of dangerous content in HTML in an application using
SafeHTML for parsing HTML code.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.1:
http://pixel-apes.com/download/safehtml-1.2.1.zip

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Christian Stocker

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