PSNews No Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	11124
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2004-1665
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Sep 05 2004 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 12 2009 07:06AM
Credit:	Discovery is credited to Michal Blaszczak <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable:	PSnews PSnews 1.1
Not Vulnerable:

PSNews No Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

PSNews is a Web application that is implemented in PHP.

PSNews is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied URI input.

This vulnerability is reported to exist in version 1.1 of PSNews.

PSNews No Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof of concept is available:
http://www.example.com/index.php?function=show_all&no=%253cscript>alert%2528document.cookie);%253c/script>
http://www.example.com/index.php?function=add_kom&no=">%20<font%20size="20"%20color=red>%20<b>%20WackY%20%20</font>

PSNews No Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

PSNews No Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• PSnews Homepage (PSnews)
  
• Bug XSS in PsNews 1.1 (Michal Blaszczak )