Ultimate Auction multiple scripts cross-site scripting
| ultimate-auction-multiple-scripts-xss (27276) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Ultimate Auction is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by multiple scripts. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the 'item', 'seller', 'user', 'itemnum', 'category', or 'query' 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.
Note: The following scripts are reported to be vulnerable:
emailtofriend.pl
violation.pl
vsoa.pl
userask.pl
leavefeed.pl
itemlist.pl
search.pl
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- Ultimate Auction Web site: Ultimate Auction-Auktions-Software der Extraklasse!.
- UNSECURED SYSTEMS Wednesday, June 21, 2006: Ultimate Auction XSS vuln..
- CVE-2006-3155: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Ultimate Auction 1.0 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) item parameter in (a) emailtofriend.pl or (b) violation.pl, (2) seller parameter in (c) vsoa.pl, (3) user parameter in (d) userask.pl or (e) leavefeed.pl, (4) itemnum parameter in userask.pl, (5) category parameter in (f) itemlist.pl, and the (6) query parameter in (g) search.pl.
- SECTRACK ID: 1016351: Ultimate Auction Input Validation Flaws Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
Platforms Affected:
- thinkfactory Ultimate Auction 1.0 and prior
Reported:
Jun 21, 2006
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