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Advanced Poll
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4.3
CVSS
MEDIUM
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
79
CWE
Product Name: Advanced Poll
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Patch Exists: NO
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Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Advanced Poll

The Advanced Poll application is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to inadequate input sanitization. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the browser of an unsuspecting user within the affected site's context. This can be used to steal authentication credentials stored in cookies and launch further attacks.

Mitigation:

To mitigate this vulnerability, it is recommended to sanitize user-supplied input properly before using it in the application to prevent any script injection attacks. It is also advised to implement a content security policy (CSP) and utilize output encoding techniques to prevent XSS vulnerabilities.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15506/info

Advanced Poll 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 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/poll/popup.php?action=results&poll_ident="><script>alert("hola vengo a flotar");</script>

http://www.example.com/poll/popup.php?action=results&poll_ident="><script>alert(document.cookie);</script>

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