# CVE-2013-6786: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Allegro RomPager before 4.51, as used on the ZyXEL P660HW-D1, Huawei MT882, Sitecom WL-174, TP-L

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2014-01-16 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Allegro RomPager before 4.51, as used on the ZyXEL P660HW-D1, Huawei MT882, Sitecom WL-174, TP-LINK TD-8816, and D-Link DSL-2640R and DSL-2641R, when the "forbidden author header" protection mechanism is bypassed, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by requesting a nonexistent URI in conjunction with a crafted HTTP Referer header that is not properly handled in a 404 page. NOTE: there is no CVE for a "URL redirection" issue that some sources list separately.

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## References

- http://antoniovazquezblanco.github.io/docs/advisories/Advisory_RomPagerXSS.pdf
- http://osvdb.org/99694
- http://osvdb.org/ref/99/rompager407.pdf

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