VNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	17317
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2006-1544
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 30 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 12 2006 09:12PM
Credit:	Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable:	vscripts.pl VNews 1.2
Not Vulnerable:

VNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

VNews is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues 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.

VNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


These issues can be exploited through a web client.

VNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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]:[email protected]

VNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• VNews Multiple Vulnerabilities (eVuln.com)
  
• VNews Web Site (VScripts)
  
• [eVuln] VNews Multiple Vulnerabilities (eVuln)