Calendarix YearCal.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	17562
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Apr 17 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 18 2006 06:01PM
Credit:	[email protected] is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Calendarix Calendarix Advanced 1.5 .20050501 Calendarix Calendarix 0.7.20060401
Not Vulnerable:

Calendarix YearCal.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Calendarix 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.

Specific information regarding affected versions of Calendarix is currently unavailable.

Calendarix YearCal.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited through a web client.

The following example URI demonstrates this issue:

http://www.example.com/[path]/yearcal.php?ycyear=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

Calendarix YearCal.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]

Calendarix YearCal.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Calendarix Home Page (Calendarix)
  
• Calendarix "yearcal.php" XSS Attacking ([email protected])