The 'a-blog' application Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

vendor:

a-blog

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: a-blog

Affected Version From: 2.1.c

Affected Version To: 2.1.c

Patch Exists: N/A

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2006

The ‘a-blog’ application Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

The 'a-blog' application is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application 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.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that untrusted data is not used to dynamically generate HTML or JavaScript code.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21716/info

The 'a-blog' application is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application 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.

Version 2.1.c is vulnerable to this issue; other versions may also be affected.

http://www.example.com/calendar/export_handler.php?format=<body+onload=alert(1111)>&id=200 http://www.example.com/calendar/export_handler.php?format=<img+src=http://www.example2.com/img/logo.gif+onload=alert(1111)>&id=200