PHPWebGallery category.php and picture.php cross-site scripting
| phpwebgallery-category-picture-xss (25733) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
PhpWebGallery is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the category.php script using the 'cat', 'num', or 'search' parameters or by the picture.php script using the 'slideshow', 'show_metadata' or 'start' parameters 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.
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
No remedy available as of February 6, 2010.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Apr 10 2006 - 05:12:17 CDT : PHPWebGallery Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities.
- PhpWebGallery Web site: PhpWebGallery.
- BID-17421: PHPWebGallery Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-1675: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in PHPWebGallery 1.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) cat, (2) num, and (3) search parameters to (a) category.php, and the (4) slideshow, (5) show_metadata, and (6) start parameters to (b) picture.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-1674.
- SA19610: PHPWebGallery Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-1301: PHPWebGallery Multiple Parameter Handling Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- PhpWebGallery PhpWebGallery 1.4.1
- PhpWebGallery PhpWebGallery 1.5.2
Reported:
Apr 10, 2006
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