[jira] Commented: (ROL-1766) Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Roller search term treatment

["Anil Gangolli (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

    [ https://issues.apache.org/roller/browse/ROL-1766?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14476#action_14476 ] 

Anil Gangolli commented on ROL-1766:
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This issue was originally surfaced and fixed in June 2008.

The issue is fixed in the trunk by the following revision:  https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=668737

There is also a patch to the weblog.vm template that was circulated on roller mailing lists:

http://www.nabble.com/Please-tell-me-how-to-validate-the-search-string-that-appears-in-the-URL-tc18709716s12275.html#a18749289

This provides a way for users to fix this locally without upgrading to a more recent build.

However, neither fix has been put in any released version; it has not been backported to existing versions.

I will attach the patch for weblog.vm as of revision 662259  (in the above referenced e-mail) to this bug as well.

> Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Roller search term treatment
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ROL-1766
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/roller/browse/ROL-1766
>             Project: Roller
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Search
>    Affects Versions: 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0
>         Environment: any
>            Reporter: Anil Gangolli
>            Assignee: Roller Unassigned
>
> The search term submitted to Roller as the value of the "q" parameter on search requests (/search?q=query+terms) is echoed back in the default search form without escaping HTML tags.
> This can be converted to a cross-site scripting attack.

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