CuteNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	17700
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Apr 26 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 26 2006 09:36PM
Credit:	outlaw is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable:	CutePHP CuteNews 1.4.1
Not Vulnerable:

CuteNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

CuteNews is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. These issues are due to the application's failure 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.

CuteNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

These issues can be exploited through a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URIs are available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/cutenews-xss.txt

CuteNews 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].

CuteNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• CuteNews Home Page (CutePHP)
  
• Local XXS Attack On CuteNews ([email protected])