MyNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	17823
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 03 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	May 04 2006 04:05PM
Credit:	DreamLord is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable:	planetluc.com MyNews 1.6.2
Not Vulnerable:

MyNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

MyNews is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails 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.

This issue affects version 1.6.2; other versions may also be vulnerable.

MyNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

These issues can be exploited through a web client.

The following example URIs were provided to demonstrate these issues:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/MyNews-0503-xss.txt

MyNews 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].

MyNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• MyNews 1.6.2 Cross Site Scripting (DreamLord)
  
• MyNews Homepage (planetluc.com)