Cross-Site Scripting in Perl-Cal

vendor:

Perl-Cal

by:

7.6

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: Perl-Cal

Affected Version From:

Affected Version To:

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE:

CPE:

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Cross-Site Scripting in Perl-Cal

Perl-Cal is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Mitigation:

To mitigate this vulnerability, it is recommended to sanitize user input and validate it properly to prevent the execution of arbitrary script code.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15779/info

Perl-Cal is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks. 

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/perlcal/cal_make.pl
?p0=%3Cscript%3Ewindow.open('http://www.example.com');%3Cscript%3E<http://www.example.com%27%29;%3Cscript%3E>

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/perlcal/cal_make.pl
?p0=%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie);</script>