VanillaSoft Helpdesk Username Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	18368
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jun 09 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 12 2006 06:31PM
Credit:	r0t is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	VanillaSoft Helpdesk 2005
Not Vulnerable:

VanillaSoft Helpdesk Username Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

VanillaSoft Helpdesk 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 execute 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.

VanillaSoft Helpdesk Username Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited through a web client.

VanillaSoft Helpdesk Username 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]

VanillaSoft Helpdesk Username Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• VanillaSoft Helpdesk (VanillaSoft)
  
• VanillaSoft Helpdesk XSS vuln. (r0t)