PT-2013-5718 · Serendipity · Serendipity

Hanno Böck · Published 2013-11-05 · Updated 2013-11-07 · CVE-2013-5670

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 Serendipity versions prior to 1.7.3

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists due to insufficient validation of user input. This allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the to r list parameter in the htmlarea SpellChecker module.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.7.3, update to version 1.7.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the spell-check-savedicts.php file in the htmlarea SpellChecker module to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using the to r list parameter in the affected module until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-5670

Affected Products

Serendipity

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5670 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/01/1 · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/01/3 · Patch
• http://blog.s9y.org/archives/250-Serendipity-1.7.3-released.html · Note
• http://opensyscom.fr/Actualites/serendipity-xss-vulnerability.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-5670 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/87395 · Note