Plague News System CID Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:14137

Info

Plague News System CID Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 14137
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 04 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 04 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to Easyex.
Vulnerable: FrozenPlague Plague News System 0.7
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Plague News System CID Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Plague News System is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the 'index.php' script.

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

Exploit / POC

Plague News System CID Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required. The following example is available:

http://www.example.com/index.php?cid=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

Solution / Fix

Plague News System CID 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]>.

References

Plague News System CID Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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