Armorize-ADV-2006-0005 discloses multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that are found in Gcontact, which is a Web based address book written in Ajax/PHP offering multi-user, multi-contacts (email,phone,icq,msn,...) & multi-address for each person, birthday reminder by email, mailing-list management, Excel export, etc.
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Armorize Technologies Security Advisory
Advisory No:
Armorize-ADV-2006-0005
Status:
Partial
Date:
2006/10/14
Summary:
Armorize-ADV-2006-0005 discloses multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that are found in Gcontact, which is a Web based address book written in Ajax/PHP offering multi-user, multi-contacts (email,phone,icq,msn,...) & multi-address for each person, birthday reminder by email, mailing-list management, Excel export, etc.
Affected Software:
Gcontact 0.6.5
Vulnerability Description:
Cross-Site Scripting
Analysis/Impact:
Allows malicious users to access restricted directories and/or view data outside the normal scope which may lead to information theft and invasion of privacy.
Detection/Exploit(partial):
http://www.example.com/[PATH]/index.php
Protection/Solution:
1. Escape every questionable URI and HTML script.
2. Remove prohibited user input.
Credit: Security Team at Armorize Technologies, Inc. (security@armorize.com)
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