Bug 674679 (CVE-2011-0740) - CVE-2011-0740 php-magpierss: XSS vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2011-0740 php-magpierss: XSS vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2011-0740
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 674680 674681
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-02 21:47 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:57:40 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2011-02-02 21:47:05 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-0740 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2011-0740
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0740
Assigned: 20110201
Reference: http://www.autosectools.com/Advisories/WordPress.RSS.Feed.Reader.for.WordPress.0.1_Reflected.Cross-site.Scripting_82.html
Reference: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45997
Reference: http://osvdb.org/70644
Reference: http://secunia.com/advisories/43071
Reference: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/64949

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in
magpie/scripts/magpie_slashbox.php in RSS Feed Reader 0.1 for
WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or
HTML via the rss_url parameter.


Note that this wordpress plugin is not shipped, but seems to be using the same magpierss that we ship.  At any rate I've verified the XSS in magpierss 0.72.  To fix this, the following should work:

6 $url = htmlspecialchars($_GET['rss_url']);

(using htmlspecialchars()).  I've not looked to see if there are any other similar occurances.  I don't expect upstream to fix anything as 0.72 was released in 2005 and that is the latest version.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-02-02 21:50:13 UTC
Created php-magpierss tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 674680]
Affects: epel-all [bug 674681]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:57:40 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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