sphpBlog Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

vendor:

sphpBlog

by:

SecurityFocus

3.3

CVSS

MEDIUM

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: sphpBlog

Affected Version From: 0.4.0

Affected Version To: 0.4.0

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:sphpblog:sphpblog:0.4.0

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

sphpBlog Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

sphpBlog is affected by 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 input is properly sanitized.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13170/info

sphpBlog is affected by 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.

This issue is reported to affect sphpBlog version 0.4.0; earlier versions may also be vulnerable. 

http://www.example.com/sphpblog/search.php?q=[XSS]
http://www.example.com/sphpblog/search.php?q=%3Cmarquee%3Ewe+are+a+like%3C%2Fmarquee%3E
http://www.example.com/sphpblog/search.php?q=<a href=http://echo.or.id>echo</a>