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lednews XSS

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Searches for the existence of lednews

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running LedNews, a set of scripts designed to
help maintain a news-based website.

There is a flaw in some versions of lednews which may permit a possible hacker
to include rogue HTML code in the news, which may in turn be used to
steal the cookies of people visiting this site, or to annoy them
by showing pop-up error messages and such.

Solution : Make sure you are running the latest version of lednews
Network Security Threat Level: Medium

Networks Security ID: 7920

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