CVE-2007-1454 Information

Description

ext/filter in PHP 5.2.0 when FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING is used with the FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW flag does not properly strip HTML tags which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML with a ‘’ character followed by certain whitespace characters which passes one filter but is collapsed into a valid tag as demonstrated using 0b.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/25056 http://secunia.com/advisories/25062 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1283 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:090 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_32_php.html http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-18-2007.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22914