Add additional checks to core input filter

Published: Jan 19, 2011

Version: 1.0

Maximum Severity Rating: Low

Background

DotNetNuke contains a number of functions that are used to sanitize user input..

Issue Summary

The blacklist function that is used to strip dangerous content that could lead to a cross-site scripting attack (XSS) did not contain a match for a particular string. If this string contained an invalid HTML tag, a XSS attack could occur.

Mitigating factors

N/A

Affected DotNetNuke versions

  • All 

Non-Affected Versions:

  • N/A

Fix(s) for issue

To fix this problem, you are recommended to update to the latest version of DotNetNuke (5.6.1 at time of writing)

Acknowledgments

Chris Wood

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