Secunia Security Advisory - r0t has reported a vulnerability in SyntaxCMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
SyntaxCMS "search_query" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18207
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CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
SyntaxCMS 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/6641/
DESCRIPTION:
r0t has reported a vulnerability in SyntaxCMS, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "search_query" parameter when performing a search
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 reported in version 1.2.1. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
r0t
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2005/12/syntaxcms-xss-vuln.html
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