ACS Blog Search.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	12836
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2005-0802
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 17 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 12 2009 10:56AM
Credit:	Discovery of this vulnerability is credited to farhad koosha <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable:	ASP Press ACS Blog 1.1 b ASP Press ACS Blog 1.0 ASP Press ACS Blog 0.9 ASP Press ACS Blog 0.8
Not Vulnerable:

ACS Blog Search.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

ACS Blog is reportedly affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

ACS Blog Search.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof of concept is available:
http://www.example.com//search.asp?search=%22%3Cbr%3E%3Ciframe+src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%22%3E%3C%2Fiframe%3E

ACS Blog Search.ASP 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]>.

ACS Blog Search.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• ACS Blog Homepage (ASP Press)
  
• XSS in ACS blog (farhad koosha )