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Sympa New List Cross Site Scripting

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks for sympa version

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host seems to be running sympa, an open source mailing list software.

This version of Sympa contains an HTML injection vulnerability which may
permit a user who has the rights to create a new list to inject HTML
tags in the list description field.

See also : http://www.sympa.org/
Solution : Update to version 4.1.3 or newer.
Network Security Threat Level: Low

Networks Security ID: 10992

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