K2News Management Ratings.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	19994
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Sep 13 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Sep 14 2006 03:42PM
Credit:	meto5757 is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Kreative-Studios K2News Management 1.3
Not Vulnerable:

K2News Management Ratings.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

k2News Management is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

K2News Management Ratings.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

http://www.example.com/index.php?errcode=<script>alert(document.cookie);</script>

HACKERS PAL

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/19994.html

K2News Management Ratings.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].

K2News Management Ratings.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• k2News Management Home Page (Kreative-Studios)