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Secunia Security Advisory 23764

Secunia Security Advisory 23764
Posted Jan 18, 2007
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Indexu, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

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Secunia Security Advisory 23764

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The Secunia Software Inspector is a free service that detects insecure
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TITLE:
Indexu Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23764

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23764/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Indexu 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/7921/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Indexu, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed to various parameters in multiple scripts is not
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.

Examples:
http://[host]/suggest_category.php?error_msg=[code]
http://[host]/user_detail.php?u=[code]
http://[host]/tell_friend.php?friend_name=[code]
http://[host]/tell_friend.php?friend_email=[code]
http://[host]/tell_friend.php?error_msg=[code]
http://[host]/tell_friend.php?my_name=[code]
http://[host]/tell_friend.php?my_email=[code]
http://[host]/tell_friend.php?id=[code]
http://[host]/sendmail.php?error_msg=[code]
http://[host]/sendmail.php?email=[code]
http://[host]/sendmail.php?name=[code]
http://[host]/sendmail.php?subject=[code]
http://[host]/send_pwd.php?email=[code]
http://[host]/send_pwd.php?error_msg=[code]
http://[host]/send_pwd.php?username=[code]
http://[host]/search.php?keyword=[code]
http://[host]/register.php?error_msg=[code]
http://[host]/register.php?username=[code]
http://[host]/register.php?password=[code]
http://[host]/register.php?password2=[code]
http://[host]/register.php?email=[code]
http://[host]/power_search.php?url=[code]
http://[host]/power_search.php?contact_name=[code]
http://[host]/power_search.php?email=[code]
http://[host]/new.php?path=[code]
http://[host]/new.php?total=[code]
http://[host]/modify.php?pflag=search&query=[code]
http://[host]/login.php?error_msg=[code]

NOTE: Reportedly more files are affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Use another product.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
SwEET-DeViL, viP HaCkEr, and HaCkEr sUn

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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