Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in phpAdsNew, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion and cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
phpAdsNew "lib-history.inc.php" Cross-Site Scripting and Script
Insertion
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22526
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22526/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
phpAdsNew 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4585/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in phpAdsNew, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion and
cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to unspecified parameters in lib-history.inc.php is not
properly sanitised before being used or 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 is reported in versions prior to 2.0.8-pr1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.8-pr1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=457774&group_id=11386
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