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Noah Grey Greymatter GM-Comments.CGI HTML Injection Vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks for the version of Greymatter

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running Greymatter, a web based log and journal
maintenance system implemented in Perl.

The remote version of this software is vulnerable to an HTML injection
vulnerability due to a lack of filtering on user-supplied input in the
file 'gm-comments.cgi'. A possible hacker may exploit this flaw to perform a
cross-site scripting attack against the remote host.

This software may be vulnerable to another HTLM injection vulnerability
in the file 'gm-cplog.cgi' and to a password disclosure vulnerability
in the file 'gm-token.cgi'.

Solution : None at this time.
Network Security Threat Level: Medium

Networks Security ID: 12189, 12182, 12184

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