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FarCry Search Feature Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18129
Release Date: 2005-12-20
Popularity: 4,238 views

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

Software:FarCry Content Management System 3.x

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

Input passed to the "criteria" parameter when perform a search 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 3.0 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/farcry-xss-vuln.html


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