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Pretty Guestbook "pagina" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20322
Release Date: 2006-05-29
Last Update: 2006-05-31
Popularity: 4,147 views

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

Software:Pretty Guestbook

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2637


Description:
luny has discovered a vulnerability in Pretty Guestbook, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "pagina" parameter in view.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 vulnerability has been confirmed in the latest available version (2006-05-29). Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
luny

Changelog:
2006-05-31: Added CVE reference.


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