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Fantastic Guestbook guestbook.php Script Insertion
Secunia Advisory: SA21024
Release Date: 2006-07-12
Last Update: 2006-07-17
Popularity: 9,912 views

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

Software:Fantastic Guestbook 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-3568


Description:
omnipresent has discovered a vulnerability in Fantastic Guestbook, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to the "first_name", "last_name", and "nickname" form field parameters in guestbook.php is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is viewed.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.0.1. Other versions may be also affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
omnipresent

Changelog:
2006-07-17: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://it.security.netsons.org/exploit/FGB.txt


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