HTML entity encoding

HTML features a special encoding scheme called HTML entities. The purpose of this scheme is to make it possible to safely render certain reserved HTML characters (e.g., < > &) within documents, as well as to carry high bit characters safely over 7-bit media. The scheme nominally permits three types of notation:

Browser Security Handbook, part 1

• Written and maintained by Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@google.com>.
• Copyright 2008, 2009 Google Inc, rights reserved.
• Released under terms and conditions of the CC-3.0-BY license.

Table of Contents

• ← Back to introduction

• Basic concepts behind web browsers
• Uniform Resource Locators
• Unicode in URLs
<... Read more »

// Rising0day.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "windows.h"
enum { SystemModuleInformation = 11 };
typedef struct {
   ULONG   Unknown1;
   ULONG   Unknown2;
   PVOID   Base;
   ULONG   Size;
   ULONG   Flags;
   USHORT  Index;
   USHORT  NameLength;
   USHORT  LoadCount;
   USHORT  PathLength;
   CHAR    ImageName[256];
} SYSTEM_MODULE_INFORMATION_

PR09-15: XSS injection vulnerability within HP System Management
Homepage (Insight Manager)

Vulnerability found: 11th October 2009

Severity: Medium

Description:

A XSS vulnerability has been found within HP System Management; Arising
from insufficient input filtering.
By using a specially-crafted link, and tricking the victim into clicking
on it, an attacker can perform malicious attacks such as the following:

- Hijack user accounts by stealing the victim's cookies that are
assigned to the victim's browser by the vulnerable website

- Hijack user accounts by injecting a "fake" html form on the html
rendered by the victim's web browser

- Redirect the victim to a malicious third-party website which would
perform a phishing attack to steal the user credentials or exploit a
vulnerability (i.e.: buffer overflow) on the victim's web browser in
order to compromise the victim's workstation

... Read more »

ShareTronix - HTML Injection Vulnerability





Version Affected: 1.0.4 (newest)



Info:

Sharetronix Opensource is a multimedia microblogging platform.

It helps people in a community, company, or group to exchange short messages over the Web.



Credits: MaXe from InterN0T (patched the vulnerability) & Reelix (found the vulnerability)



External Links:

http://sharetronix.com/opensource/





-:: The Advisory ::-

The header.php file for showing a single microblog entry does not sanitize the page_title correct.



page_title is set by the user when posting an entry to the microblog platform.



Files:

sharetronix/system/templates/

Hello Bugtraq!

I want to warn you about Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in 3D Cloud
(mod_3dcloud) plugin for Joomla. Which I found and disclosed at 22.01.2010.

It is similar to XSS vulnerability in JVClouds3D for Joomla
(http://websecurity.com.ua/3839/). About millions of flash files
tagcloud.swf which are vulnerable to XSS attacks I mentioned in my article
XSS vulnerabilities in 34 millions flash files
(http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/2010-01/msg00035.html).

XSS:

http://site/modules/mod_3dcloud/tagcloud.swf?mode=... Read more »

Are you sure you're connecting to the correct machine? To prove it,
sudo/su/login-as-root locally (if you can) confirm the hostname, then
touch a file in the /root directory called "this_is_the_CentOS_VPS.0"

Next, when you login "as root over SSH", run ls -ltr and look for that
file - if you don't see it, then maybe you are into the wrong machine :)

eg:
$ssh root@109.107.120.17
password:
[login banner and motd stuff here]
#hostname
centos-VPS     <---presumably, if not, read on below*****
# touch this_is_the_CentOS_VPS.0
this produces the foillowing file
#ls -ltr

-rw-r--r--   1 root root    0 2010-01-18 20:04 this_is_the_centos-vps.0

this file proves what machine you are actually SSH-ed into.


If not, read on:

***** A common SSH gotcha occurs when the machine you are trying to
login to (the CentOS VPS one) is actu... Read more »

Hi all;

It has been brought to our attention that a number of security
vulnerabilities have been noted in SQL-Ledger.  Several of these
affect earlier versions of LedgerSMB, and three hotfixes have been
released for problems that continue to affect the LedgerSMB codebase.

As always, we highly recommend testing all hotfixes before applying
them to a production environment.

The CVE's mentioned here are the ones attached to SQL-Ledger.  Subtle
differences as to how these affect LedgerSMB are noted below.

These vulnerabilities include:
* No Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (XSRF) protection (CVE-2009-3580)
* SQL Injection (similar to CVE-2009-3582)
* Local File Include (CVE-2009-3583)
* Default Administrator Password Weakness (CVE-2009-4402)
* No secure flag on cookie when (CVE-2009-3584)

All five of have been patched, either in stable versions or in
hotfixes.  Please read below for more informa... Read more »