Secunia Security Advisory - rgod has discovered a vulnerability in PHPSiteSearch, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
PHPSiteSearch "query" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16156
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16156/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
PHPSiteSearch 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5422/
DESCRIPTION:
rgod has discovered a vulnerability in PHPSiteSearch, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "query" parameter in "search.php" isn't properly
sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in
context of an affected site.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.7.7d. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
rgod
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.rgod.altervista.org/PHPSiteSearch177dpoc.txt
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