Yet Another Link Directory Yald.PHP HTML Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	21904
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 06 2007 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 10 2007 08:51PM
Credit:	luny has been credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Yet Another Link Directory Yet Another Link Directory 1.0
Not Vulnerable:	Yet Another Link Directory Yet Another Link Directory 1.1

Yet Another Link Directory Yald.PHP HTML Injection Vulnerability

Yet Another Link Directory is prone to an HTML-injection vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

Attacker-supplied HTML and script code may run in the context of the affected website, potentially allowing an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials or to control how the site is rendered to the user; other attacks are also possible.

This issue affects version 1.0.

Yet Another Link Directory Yald.PHP HTML Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue through a web client.

Yet Another Link Directory Yald.PHP HTML Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor released an update to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.

Yet Another Link Directory Yald.PHP HTML Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Yet Another Link Directory Homepage (Yet Another Link Directory)
  
• Yet Another Link Directory Release Notes 1.1 (Yet Another Link Directory)