VirtuaNews Admin Panel multiple cross-site scripting
| virtuanews-multiple-xss (15402) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
VirtuaNews Admin Panel is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. A remote attacker could embed malicious script to the admin.php script, which would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site, once the link is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
Platforms Affected:
- VirtuaSystems, VirtuaNews 1.0.3 Pro
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 29, 2008.
Consequences:
Obtain Information
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Fri Mar 05 2004 - 11:45:41 CST , VirtuaNews Admin Panel 1.0.3 Pro Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabillity at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-03/0052.html.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Sun Mar 07 2004 - 20:02:32 CST, RE: VirtuaNews Admin Panel 1.0.3 Pro Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabillity at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-03/0069.html.
- VirtualNews Web site, VirtuaNews at http://www.virtuanews.co.uk.
- BID-9812: VirtuaSystems VirtuaNews Multiple Module Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- BID-9819: VirtuaSystems VirtuaNews Admin.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-0358: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in VirtuaNews Admin Panel Pro 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script as other users via (1) the mainnews parameter in admin.php, (2) the expand parameter in admin.php, (3) the id parameter in admin.php, (4) the catid parameter in admin.php, or (5) an unnamed parameter during the newslogo_upload action in admin.php.
Reported:
Mar 05, 2004
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