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CGI Calendar Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA19066
Release Date: 2006-02-28
Last Update: 2006-07-20
Popularity: 5,830 views

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

Software:CGI Calendar 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0980


Description:
Revnic Vasile has discovered some vulnerabilities in CGI Calendar, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "year" parameter is not properly sanitised by "index.cgi" and "viewday.cgi" 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 vulnerabilites have been confirmed in version 2.7 and 2.8. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Revnic Vasile

Changelog:
2006-07-20: Added CVE reference.


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