Gossamer Threads Links Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

vendor:

Links

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: Links

Affected Version From: 2.x, 2.2.x

Affected Version To: 3

Patch Exists: YES

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

2005

Gossamer Threads Links Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Gossamer Threads Links 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. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Mitigation:

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

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13484/info

Gossamer Threads Links 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. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Links versions 2.x, and 2.2.x, as well as Links-SQL version 3.0 are all reported vulnerable to this issue. 

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