FarsiNews Search.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	17534
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Apr 14 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 17 2006 10:41PM
Credit:	amin emami is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	FarsiNews FarsiNews 2.5.3 FarsiNews FarsiNews 2.5 FarsiNews FarsiNews 2.1 Beta2 FarsiNews FarsiNews 2.1
Not Vulnerable:

FarsiNews Search.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

FarsiNews is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails 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.

FarsiNews Search.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited through a web client.

Example URIs have been provided:

http://www.example.com/[farsinews_path]/search.php?selected_search_arch=><script>alert(document.cookie)</script><!--
http://www.example.com/[farsinews_path]/search.php?selected_search_arch=%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3C%2Fscript%3E%3C%21--

FarsiNews Search.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]:[email protected]

FarsiNews Search.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• FarsiNews Homepage (FarsiNews)
  
• Farsinews Cross-Site Scripting & Path disclosure vulnerability ([email protected])