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Warm Links "search.cgi" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA17864
Release Date: 2005-12-05
Popularity: 3,616 views

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

Software:Warm Links 1.x

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Description:
r0t has reported a vulnerability in Warm Links, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "search" parameter in "search.cgi" 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.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.0 and prior. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
r0t

Original Advisory:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2005/12/warm-links-xss-vuln.html


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