SB2011112804 - Cross-site scripting in dolibarr
Published: November 28, 2011 Updated: December 14, 2020
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2011-4329)
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in Dolibarr 3.1.0 when processing (1) the username parameter in a setup action to admin/company.php, or the PATH_INFO to (2) admin/security_other.php, (3) admin/events.php, or (4) admin/user.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-11/0052.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-11/0138.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50617
- https://doliforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=232&group_id=144
- https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr/commit/762f98ab4137749d0993612b4e3544a4207e78a1