[SA20418] dotProject Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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TITLE:
dotProject Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20418

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20418/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
dotProject 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/8083/

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

Input passed to unspecified parameters isn't 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.

Successful exploitation requires that the Internet Explorer browser
is used.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0.2 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.3.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21656

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Secure Sky Technology

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
dotProject:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=422371

JVN:
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2397636431/index.html

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