Cross-site scripting in Zend Framework - CVE-2012-4451

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in Zend Framework 2.0.x before 2.0.1 when processing unspecified input to (1) Debug, (2) FeedPubSubHubbub, (3) LogFormatterXml, (4) TagCloudDecorator, (5) Uri, (6) ViewHelperHeadStyle, (7) ViewHelperNavigationSitemap, or (8) ViewHelperPlaceholderContainerAbstractStandalone, related to Escaper. 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.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2012-4451

External References

• http://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2012-03
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/571
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/573
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55636
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688946#10
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436210
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860738
• https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/commit/27131ca9520bdf1d4c774c71459eba32f2b10733

Related Security Bulletins

• Cross-site scripting in Zend Framework