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News > Security Policy > Security Bulletin no. 18

HTML/Script Code Injection Vulnerability

Published: June 11, 2008

Version: 1.0

Maximum Severity Rating: Low

Background

Whilst installing DotNetNuke if an error occurs, as the custom error handling system may not be in place a redirect is performed to an error handling page.

Issue Summary

The error handling page optionally reads back a querystring parameter that may contain additional error information. This parameter was not being encoded before being echoed to the screen and could allow for script or html injection issues.

Mitigating factors

N/A

Affected DotNetNuke versions

4.6.2 - 4.8.3 inclusive.


Non-Affected Versions:

N/A

Fix(s) for issue

To fix this problem, you are recommended to update to the latest version of DotNetNuke (4.8.4 at time of writing)

Acknowledgments

Jimmy Summers- -Southern Progress Corporation

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