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vendor:
FarsiNews
by:
SecurityFocus
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Cross-Site Scripting
79
CWE
Product Name: FarsiNews
Affected Version From: N/A
Affected Version To: N/A
Patch Exists: N/A
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
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2005

FarsiNews Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

FarsiNews is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails 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 help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that user-supplied input is properly sanitized.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17534/info

FarsiNews is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails 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 help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

http://www.example.com/[farsinews_path]/search.php?selected_search_arch=><script>alert(document.cookie)</script><!--
http://www.example.com/[farsinews_path]/search.php?selected_search_arch=%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3C%2Fscript%3E%3C%21--