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Faq-O-Matic Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA18468
Release Date: 2006-01-16
Last Update: 2006-01-25
Popularity: 4,848 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Faq-O-Matic 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0251


Description:
Preddy has reported some vulnerabilities in Faq-O-Matic, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "_duration", "file", and "cmd" parameters 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.

Examples:
http://[victim]/fom.cgi?cmd=recent&file=1&showLastModified=show&_submit=Show+documents&_duration=[code]
http://[victim]/fom.cgi?file=[code]&showLastModified=show
http://[victim]/fom.cgi?_insert=answer&cmd=[code]&file=1

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2.711. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Preddy, RootShell Security Group

Changelog:
2006-01-25: Added CVE reference.


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