wwwThreads Calendar.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	19177
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jul 26 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 27 2006 10:32PM
Credit:	l2odon is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	WWWThreads WWWThreads 5.4 WWWThreads WWWThreads RC3
Not Vulnerable:

wwwThreads Calendar.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

WWWThreads is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails 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.

wwwThreads Calendar.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Attackers can exploit this issue via a web client.

An example URI has been provided:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/wwwthreads-xss.txt

wwwThreads Calendar.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 if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]:[email protected].

wwwThreads Calendar.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• WWWThreads Web Site ( WWWThreads)
  
• wwwThreads XSS ([email protected])