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coppermine -- IP spoofing and XSS vulnerability

Description:

GHC team reports about coppermine

The lack of sanitizing of user defined variables may result in undesirable consequences such as IP spoofing or XSS attack.

Generally users of Coppermine Gallery can post comments. Remote address & x-forwarded-for variables are logged for admin's eyes. X-Forwarded-for variable does not pass throu any filtration before logging into database. User can define/redefine this variable.

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portaudit: coppermine -- IP spoofing and XSS vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>