SweetSuite.NET Content Management System Search.ASPX Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	17254
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 27 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 11 2006 10:58PM
Credit:	rakstija r0t is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Sheer Vision Technologies SweetSuite.NET CMS 2.1
Not Vulnerable:	Sheer Vision Technologies SweetSuite.NET CMS 2.2.0.1

SweetSuite.NET Content Management System Search.ASPX Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SweetSuite.NET Content Management 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.

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 help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

SweetSuite.NET Content Management System Search.ASPX Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Attackers can exploit this issue through a web client.

SweetSuite.NET Content Management System Search.ASPX Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released verson 2.2.0.1 to address this issue; please see the reference section for details.

SweetSuite.NET Content Management System Search.ASPX Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• ssCMS (Sheer Vision Technologies)
  
• SweetSuite.NET - ssCMS 2.1.x XSS vuln. (rakstija r0t)