PT News Search.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	20090
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Sep 18 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Sep 19 2006 10:56PM
Credit:	Snake is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	PT News PT News 1.7.8
Not Vulnerable:

PT News Search.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

PT News is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit 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.

PT News Search.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Attackers can exploit this issue via a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

http://www.example.com/ptnews-1.7.8/search.php?pgname=[xss]

PT News Search.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].

PT News Search.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• PT News Home Page (PT News)
  
• PT News 1.7.8 (Search.php) XSS Vulnerability ([email protected])