Six Apart Movable Type up to 3.32 cross site scripting

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Six Apart Movable Type up to 3.32. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2007-3342. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Six Apart Movable Type up to 3.32. Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Movable Type (MT) before 3.34 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via comments that have (1) a malformed SGML numeric character reference with a \0 (0x00) character in a javascript: URI or (2) an attribute in an element that lacks the > character at the end of the start tag, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0231.

The weakness was shared 01/26/2007 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-3342 since 06/21/2007. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

Upgrading to version 3.33 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at OSVDB (38621†). The entry VDB-34729 is related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Six Apart

Name

• Movable Type

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14
• 3.15
• 3.16
• 3.17
• 3.18
• 3.19
• 3.20
• 3.21
• 3.22
• 3.23
• 3.24
• 3.25
• 3.26
• 3.27
• 3.28
• 3.29
• 3.30
• 3.31
• 3.32

License

• open-source

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