HotPlug CMS Login1.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	18454
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jun 15 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 16 2006 04:26PM
Credit:	Federico Fazzi is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability
Vulnerable:	HotPlug HotPlug CMS 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

HotPlug CMS Login1.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

HotPlug CMS is prone to a cross-site scripting attack. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in the browser of a victim user in the context of the webserver process. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials or launch other attacks.

HotPlug CMS Login1.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/HotPlugCMS-0615-xss.txt

HotPlug CMS Login1.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].

HotPlug CMS Login1.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Hotplug CMS Homepage (HotplugCMS)
  
• HotPlugCMS 1.0, Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Federico Fazzi)