CVE-2007-1454
MEDIUM
4.3
CVSS 2.0
Description
ext/filter in PHP 5.2.0, when FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING is used with the FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW flag, does not properly strip HTML tags, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML with a '<' character followed by certain whitespace characters, which passes one filter but is collapsed into a valid tag, as demonstrated using %0b.
Affected products and versions
- PHP versions 5.2.0
References
- secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/25056
- secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/25062
- www.debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1283
- www.mandriva.com http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:090
- www.novell.com http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_32_php.html
- www.php-security.org http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-18-2007.html
- www.securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22914
- nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record