Ashwebstudio Ashnews 0.83 - Cross-Site Scripting

EDB-ID:

27149




Platform:

PHP

Date:

2006-01-30


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16426/info

Ashnews 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 in the context of the affected site. These may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks. 

Example URI have been provided:

http://www.example.com/[path]/ashnews.php?page=showcomments&id=<script><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

http://www.example.com/[path]/ashnews.php?page=showcomments&id=[xss]