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Fotopholder "path" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA21648
Release Date: 2006-08-28
Last Update: 2006-08-30
Popularity: 5,902 views

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

Software:Fotopholder 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-4259
CVE-2006-4260


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

Input passed to the "path" parameter 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 vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.5. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Vampire

Changelog:
2006-08-30: Added CVE reference.


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