FarsiNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	17701
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Apr 26 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 26 2006 10:01PM
Credit:	O.U.T.L.A.W. is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable:	FarsiNews FarsiNews 2.5.3
Not Vulnerable:

FarsiNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

FarsiNews 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.

FarsiNews 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/farsinews-xss.txt

FarsiNews 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].

FarsiNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• FarsiNews Homepage (FarsiNews)
  
• XXS Attack On FarsiNews ([email protected])