GeoBlog Viewcat.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	17784
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 02 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	May 02 2006 11:05PM
Credit:	SubjectZero Network Security Research Group is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	geoBLog geoBlog MOD_1.0
Not Vulnerable:

GeoBlog Viewcat.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

GeoBlog is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application 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.

GeoBlog Viewcat.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited through a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/geoblog-1.0-MOD_1.0-xss.txt

GeoBlog Viewcat.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]

GeoBlog Viewcat.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• geoBlog Homepage (geoBlog)
  
• geoBlog Mutiple XSS Vulnerability (SubjectZero Network Security Research Group)
  
• geoBlog Mutiple XSS Vulnerability ([email protected])