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TITLE:
Zabbix PHP Frontend "formatQuery()" Cross-Site Scripting
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40679

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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http://secunia.com/advisories/40679/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=40679

RELEASE DATE:
2010-07-28

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Zabbix, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Various input is not properly sanitised by the "formatQuery()"
function of the "Curl" class in
frontends/php/include/classes/class.curl.php before being returned to
the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script
code in a user's browser session in context of an affected website.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.8.2. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in version 1.8.3-rc1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported as a normal bug by alixen. Later independently reported as
cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in frontends/php/tr_status.php
by Vupen.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Zabbix:
http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=68770
https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-2326

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
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EXPLOIT:
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http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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