JVNDB-2008-000072

Movable Type cross-site scripting vulnerability

Movable Type contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Movable Type, a web log system from Six Apart KK, contains a vulnerability resulting from the improper handling of the management page that can lead to cross-site scripting.

This vulnerability is different from JVN#30385652.

An updated version addressing this vulnerability was released on December 3, 2008

Ryuji Sakai, Tomohito Yoshino and Yoshinori Ohta of Business Architects Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA.
JPCERT/CC coordinated with the vendor under the Information Security Early Warning Partnership.

Six Apart, Ltd.

• Movable Type 4 (version 4.22 and earlier)
• Movable Type (community_solution) 4 (version 4.22 and earlier)
• Movable Type (enterprise) 4 (version 4.22 and earlier)
• Movable Type 4 (Open Source) (version 4.22 and earlier)
• Movable Type (enterprise) 1.5 (version 1.55 and earlier)
• Movable Type 3 (version 3.37 and earlier)

An arbitrary script may be executed on the blog administrator's web browser.

[Update the Software]
Update to the latest version according to the information provided by the vendor.

Six Apart, Ltd.

• MOVABLETYPE NEWS : Movable Type 4.23 (Japanese)

1. Cross-site Scripting(CWE-79) [IPA Evaluation]

1. CVE-2008-4634

1. JVN : JVN#81490697
2. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) : CVE-2008-4634
3. Secunia Advisory : SA32305
4. SecurityFocus : 31826
5. ISS X-Force Database : 45968
6. JVN iPedia (Japanese) : JVNDB-2008-000072

• [2008/10/21]
    Web page published
  [2008/12/24]
    Affected Products : Updated Six Apart  (Movable Type 4.22).
  [2011/05/31]
    Vendor Information : Six Apart (Movable Type 4.23).