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vendor:
PPCal Shopping Cart
by:
5.5
CVSS
MEDIUM
Cross-Site Scripting
79
CWE
Product Name: PPCal Shopping Cart
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Patch Exists: NO
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Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in PPCal Shopping Cart

PPCal Shopping Cart is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user within the affected site's context. This can lead to the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials and enable further attacks.

Mitigation:

To mitigate this vulnerability, the application should properly sanitize user-supplied input to prevent the execution of malicious script code.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15892/info

PPCal Shopping Cart 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 execute arbitrary script code 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.

http://www.example.com/ppcal.cgi?action=shop&user=8001&start=21
&stop=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert('r0t')%3C
/script%3E

http://www.example.com/ppcal.cgi?action=shop&user=%22%3E%3Cscri
pt%3Ealert('r0t')%3C/script%3E