PT-2007-3124 · Mephisto · Mephisto

Sergey Tikhonov · Published 2007-03-30 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-1768

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mephisto versions 0.7.3 and Edge 20070325

Description: A cross-site scripting issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the author name field in a comment. This occurs in the app/helpers/application helper.rb file.

Recommendations: For Mephisto version 0.7.3, update the application helper.rb file to properly sanitize the author name field. For Mephisto Edge 20070325, restrict access to the comment functionality until a proper fix is applied to sanitize the author name field.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-1768

Affected Products

Mephisto

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1768 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33230 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/35309 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/463825/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2490 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/23137 · Note