severity 509024 normal
thanks

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:03:45 pm Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Steffen Joeris <steffen.joe...@skolelinux.de> [2008-12-17 17:53]:
> > The patch for CVE-2007-2739 seems to be incomplete as already discussed
> > via private mail. Just using htmlspecialchars(), instead of the replace
> > calls should do the trick.
> > I've requested a new CVE id for this and will paste it here as soon as
> > I get it.
>
> Why do you think it is incomplete? You can't do an XSS just
> with & and without the other characters that are escaped.
> Just because the patch doesn't escape anything
> htmlspecialchars does doesn't mean it's incomplete. I
> suggest you downgrade this bug to normal as there is no
> reason to fix this with some selfmade hack.
Could develop into a potential CSRF, don't have an exploit here. Should be 
properly fixed.

Cheers
Steffen


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