Authoria HR Suite AthCGI.EXE Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	5932
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 09 2002 12:00AM
Updated:	Oct 09 2002 12:00AM
Credit:	Discovery of this issue is credited to Max <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable:	Authoria HR Suite
Not Vulnerable:

Authoria HR Suite AthCGI.EXE Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Authoria HR Suite is prone to cross-site scripting attacks.

An attacker could construct a malicious link to a vulnerable host that contains arbitrary HTML and script code. If this link is visited by a web user, the attacker-supplied code will be rendered in their browser, in the security context of the vulnerable site.

Authoria HR Suite AthCGI.EXE Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

The following proof-of-concept example was provided:

https://www.example.com/path.to/cgi-bin/athcgi.exe?command=showpage&script='],[0,0]];alert('test!');a=[['

Authoria HR Suite AthCGI.EXE 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 are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Authoria HR Suite AthCGI.EXE Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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