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Re: XSS in HTDIG

From: Henrik Edlund <henrik () edlund org>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:06:29 +0200 (MET DST)

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Peter Watkins wrote:

PW> What version is this? With the sample templates in ht://Dig version
PW> 3.1.6, the "words" info seems to be properly escaped -- I just see the
PW> <script> stuff inside the text input box, and translated on the page.
PW> For example,
PW>
PW> 
http://www.htdig.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig;words=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E
PW>
PW> My example URL suggests that version 3.1.5 is also immune, though 3.1.5
PW> has other issues that 3.1.6 resolves -- see
PW>    http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/3410 and
PW>    http://www.htdig.org/index.html

Version 3.2.0b3 seems to be vunerable.

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Current thread:

XSS in HTDIG Howard Yeend (Jun 26)
- Re: XSS in HTDIG Peter Watkins (Jun 28)
  - Re: XSS in HTDIG Henrik Edlund (Jun 28)
- Re: XSS in HTDIG webmaster (Stephen Ostermiller) (Jun 28)