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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-760-1 spip -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

24 Dec 2016

Affected Packages:

spip

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 848641.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9997, CVE-2016-9998.

More information:

Multiple reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities have been discovered in SPIP, a website publishing engine written in PHP.

• CVE-2016-9997

  It was discovered that the id parameter to the puce_statut action isn't sanitized properly. An attacker could inject arbitrary HTML code by tricking an authenticated SPIP user to open a specially crafted URL.

• CVE-2016-9998

  It was discovered that the plugin parameter to the info_plugin action isn't sanitized properly. An attacker could inject arbitrary HTML code by tricking an authenticated SPIP user to open a specially crafted URL.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.17-1+deb7u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your spip packages.

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