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XSS vulnerability in Dada Mail

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks Dada Mail version

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running Dada Mail, a free, e-mail list management
system written in Perl.

According to its banner, the remote version of this software does not
properly validate user written content before submitting that data to
the archiving system. A malicious user could embed arbitrary
javascript in archived messages to later be executed in a user's
browser within the context of the affected web site.

See also : http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=349531
Solution : Upgrade to version 2.10 alpha 1 or higher.
Network Security Threat Level: Medium

Networks Security ID: 14573

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Copyright (C) 2005 Josh Zlatin-Amishav

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