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bMachine Search Feature Cross-Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA19711
Release Date: 2006-04-18
Last Update: 2006-07-18
Popularity: 5,184 views

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

Software:BoastMachine (bMachine) 2.x
BoastMachine (bMachine) 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1841


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

Input passed to the "key" parameter in search.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to users. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9b and 3.1. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
almokanna

Changelog:
2006-04-26: Added CVE reference.
2006-07-18: Updated vulnerable versions.


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