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TITLE:
Overlay Weaver DHT Shell Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24669

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24669/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Overlay Weaver 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/13805/

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

Unspecified input is not 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 DHT shell is invoked with
the "-x" option.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.5.9 to 0.5.11. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Yoshiyuko Sukedai.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://overlayweaver.sourceforge.net/news/20070329/

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