Armorize Technologies Security Advisory

Advisory No:
Armorize-ADV-2006-0008

Status:
Partial

Date:
2006/11/01

Summary:
Armorize-ADV-2006-0008 discloses multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that are found in the sample codes of Zend Google Data Client Library (http://framework.zend.com/download/gdata), which provides a PHP 5 component to execute queries and commands against Google Data APIs from your PHP applications. For example, Google Base, Calendar, Blogger, and CodeSearch each have a data API following the Google Data protocol. 

Affected Software:
ZendGData Preview 0.2.0

Vulnerability Description:
Cross Site Scripting

Analysis/Impact:
Privacy leakages from the client-side may lead to session hijacking, identity theft and information theft.

Detection/Exploit(partial):
ZendGData-0.2.0/samples/basedemo.php
ZendGData-0.2.0/samples/calenderdemo.php

Protection/Solution:
1. Escape every questionable URI and HTML script.
2. Remove prohibited user input.

Credit: Security Team at Armorize Technologies, Inc. (security@armorize.com) 

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