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Secunia Advisory SA17875

Amazon Search Directory "search.cgi" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA17875
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Release Date 2005-12-05
   
Popularity 6,680 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Cross Site Scripting
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
Amazon Search Directory 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

r0t has reported a vulnerability in Amazon Search Directory, 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/amazon-search-directory-xss-vuln.html

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