PHP Live! Status_Image.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	17184
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 22 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Mar 22 2006 05:04PM
Credit:	kspecial <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	PHP Live! PHP Live! 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

PHP Live! Status_Image.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

PHP Live! is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a lack of proper sanitization of 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.

PHP Live! Status_Image.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited using a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

http://www.example.com/phplive/js/status_image.php?base_url=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

PHP Live! Status_Image.PHP 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]

PHP Live! Status_Image.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• PHP Live! Homepage (PHP Live!)
  
• PHP Live! XSS status_image.php (kspecial )