Armorize Technologies Security Advisory

Advisory No:
Armorize-ADV-2006-0006

Status:
Partial

Date:
2006/10/19

Summary:
Armorize-ADV-2006-0006 discloses multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that are found in KnowledgeBank (http://sourceforge.net/projects/knowledgebank/), which is a is a PHP/mySQL web app that allows you to create a searchable database application with categories, subcategories, and screenshots.

Affected Software:
KnowledgeBank 1.01

Vulnerability Description:
Cross-Site Scripting

Analysis/Impact:
Privacy leakages from the client-side may lead to session hijacking, identity theft and information theft.

Detection/Exploit(partial):
addknowledge.php
addscreenshot.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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