An issue was discovered in the stripTags and unescapeHTML components in Prototype 1.7.3 where an attacker can cause a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) through stripping crafted HTML tags.

Prototype 1.6.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to forge ticket creation (on behalf of other user accounts) via a modified email ID field.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-7220 to the following vulnerability:

Unspecified vulnerability in Prototype JavaScript framework (prototypejs) before 1.6.0.2 allows attackers to make "cross-site ajax requests" via unknown vectors.

References: ------------ http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-7220 http://github.com/sstephenson/prototype/blob/master/CHANGELOG http://osvdb.org/46312

Upstream patch: --------------- git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/prototype.git git show 02cc9992e915c024650ddc77a91064f7a4252914

The relevant file in WordPress source rpm package (F10) is: ------------------------------------------------------------ BUILD/wordpress/wp-includes/js/prototype.js

The Prototype (prototypejs) framework before 1.5.1 RC3 exchanges data using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) without an associated protection scheme, which allows remote attackers to obtain the data via a web page that retrieves the data through a URL in the SRC attribute of a SCRIPT element and captures the data using other JavaScript code, aka "JavaScript Hijacking."