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Contrexx CMS Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19294
Release Date: 2006-03-21
Popularity: 4,966 views

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

Software:Contrexx CMS 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1293


Description:
Soot has discovered a vulnerability in Contrexx CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to "$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" is not 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 confirmed in version 1.0.8. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Soot

Changelog:
2006-03-21: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://soot.shabgard.org/bugs/Contrexx-CMS.txt


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