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Mailman -- cross-site scripting in web interface

Affected packages
mailman < 2.1.14

Details

VuXML ID 4ab29e12-e787-11df-adfa-00e0815b8da8
Discovery 2010-09-14
Entry 2010-11-03

Secunia reports:

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Mailman, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Certain input passed via the list descriptions is not properly sanitised before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.

Successful exploitation requires "list owner" permissions.

References

Bugtraq ID 43187
CVE Name CVE-2010-3089
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/41265