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phpWebFTP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19827
Release Date: 2006-04-26
Last Update: 2006-05-02
Popularity: 4,821 views

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

Software:phpWebFTP 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2048


Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in phpWebFTP, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "server", "port", and "user" parameters in index.php 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 vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 3.2 and 3.3a. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
SubjectZero Network Security Research Group

Changelog:
2006-04-28: Added CVE reference.
2006-05-02: Added version 3.3a as affected.

Original Advisory:
http://www.subjectzero.net/research/phpwebftpxss.htm


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