Hot Banana Web Content Management Suite Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	15948
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Dec 19 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Dec 19 2005 12:00AM
Credit:	rakstija r0t3d3Vil is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Hot Banana Web Content Management Suite 5.3
Not Vulnerable:

Hot Banana Web Content Management Suite Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Web Content Management Suite is prone to 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 in the context of the affected site. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

This issue is reported to affect version 5.3; earlier versions may also be vulnerable.

Hot Banana Web Content Management Suite Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof of concept URI is available:
http://www.example.com/search/index.cfm?keywords=[XSS]&x=25&y=9

Hot Banana Web Content Management Suite 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]>.

Hot Banana Web Content Management Suite Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Hot Banana XSS vuln. (rakstija r0t3d3Vil)
  
• Web Content Management Suite Homepage (Hot Banana)