February 7th, 2008
Freetag plugin updated to prevent XSS
The has been updated to version 2.96 to fix a possible XSS to the tagcloud output.
XSS attacks can be used by visitors to display foreign HTML or JavaScript to visitors of the blog, if they visit specially crafted URLs. This attack basically allows for cookie stealing.
Users of the freetag plugin should upgrade to the latest version; upgrading via Spartacus-Plugin or is just a matter of a few minutes. Thanks to Alex from for reporting this issue to us.
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