Vincent Leclercq News Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

vendor:

News

by:

SecurityFocus

4.3

CVSS

MEDIUM

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: News

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

Patch Exists: N/A

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

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2006

Vincent Leclercq News Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Vincent Leclercq News is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before displaying it to users of the application. An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code execute 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 untrusted data is not used to dynamically generate web pages.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18775/info

Vincent Leclercq News is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before displaying it to users of the application.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code execute 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/divers.php?action=commentaires&commentaires=&id=1&disabled=%3C/textarea%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(8)%3C/script%3E http://[...]/divers.php?action=envoyer&id=1%22%3Cscript%3Ealert(9)%3C/script%3E