Sixapart Movable Type up to 3.15 HTML Sanitization HTML injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Sixapart Movable Type up to 3.15. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component HTML Sanitization. Executing a manipulation can lead to HTML injection. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2008-5845. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Sixapart Movable Type up to 3.15. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component HTML Sanitization. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a html injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Six Apart Movable Type (MT) before 4.23 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) MTEntryAuthorUsername, (2) MTAuthorDisplayName, (3) MTEntryAuthorDisplayName, or (4) MTCommenterName field in a Profile View template; a (5) listing screen or (6) edit screen in the CMS app; (7) a TrackBack title, related to the HTML sanitization library; or (8) a user archive name (aka archive title) on a published Community Blog template.

The weakness was disclosed 01/05/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at movabletype.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2008-5845 since 01/05/2009. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. 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 3.16 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Sixapart

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

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• open-source

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