CGI Calendar index.cgi and viewday.cgi cross-site scripting
| cgicalendar-index-viewday-xss (24946) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
CGI Calendar is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the index.cgi and viewday.cgi scripts. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the 'lang' parameter to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, allowing the attacker to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
Platforms Affected:
- CGI Calendar, CGI Calendar 2.7
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Sun Feb 26 2006 - 15:32:31 CST, CGI Calendar XSS Vulnerability at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-02/0509.html.
- SourceForge.net, CGI Calendar at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cgicalendar.
- CVE-2006-0980: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Jay Eckles CGI Calendar 2.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the year parameter in (1) index.cgi and (2) viewday.cgi.
- SA19066: CGI Calendar Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-0764: CGI Calendar year Variable Handling Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Reported:
Feb 26, 2006
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