myPHP Guestbook multiple scripts cross-site scripting
| myphp-guestbook-multiple-scripts-xss (27293) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
myPHP Guestbook is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the index.php, admin/guestbook.php, and admin/edit.php scripts. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the 'comment', 'email', 'homepage', 'id', 'name', 'text', 'number' or 'icq' 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:
- Networkarea.ch, myPHP Guestbook 2.0.0
- Networkarea.ch, myPHP Guestbook 2.0.1
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of myPHP Guestbook (2.0.2 or later), available from the myPHP Guestbook Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- myPHP Guestbook Web site, Networkarea.ch [PHP-Scripts, Downloads, Webhosting, PHP MySQL Gästebuch, myPHP Guestbook] at http://www.networkarea.ch/php_mysql_guestbook.html.
- Networkarea.ch, Networkarea.ch - Forum - Thema: Cross-site Script vulnerability at http://www.networkarea.ch/forum/topic.php?id=4.
- BID-18582: MyPHP Guestbook Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-3063: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in myPHP Guestbook 1.x through 2.0.0-r1 and before 2.0.1 RC5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) comment, (2) email, (3) homepage, (4) id, (5) name, and (6) text parameters in (a) index.php, the (7) comment, (8) email, (9) homepage, (10) number, (11) name, and (12) text parameters in (b) admin/guestbook.php, and the (13) email, (14) homepage, (15) icq, (16) name, and (17) text parameters in (c) admin/edit.php.
- SA20764: myPHP Guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-2480: myPHP Guestbook Multiple Parameter Handling Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Reported:
Jun 21, 2006
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