Polymita BPM-Suite / CollagePortal Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Sunday, 16 March 2008

Description:
Russ McRee has reported some vulnerabilities in Polymita BPM-Suite and CollagePortal, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via the "_q" and "lucene_index_field_value" parameters when performing a search 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.

Solution:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a web proxy.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Russ McRee

http://secunia.com/advisories/29355/