Vincent Leclercq News Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	18775
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jul 03 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 04 2006 09:34PM
Credit:	DarkFig is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	vincent-leclercq News 5.2
Not Vulnerable:

Vincent Leclercq News Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Vincent Leclercq News is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before displaying it to users of the application.

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.

Vincent Leclercq News Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Attackers can exploit these issues through a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/VincentLeclercqXSSJuly032006.html

Vincent Leclercq News 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].

Vincent Leclercq News Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• Acid Root (DarkFig)
  
• Vincent Leclercq News Home Page (Vincent Leclercq)