netscapeXSS.txt

`Netscape.com - Cross site scripting vulnerability  
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Type: Cross site scripting  
  
Date: June, 13th 2006  
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Credits:  
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Discovered by: David "Aesthetico" Vieira-Kurz  
http://www.majorsecurity.de  
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Affected pages:  
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1. http://netscape.com  
2. http://search.netscape.com  
3. http://channels.netscape.com  
  
Vulnerability:  
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I found a bug in the search boxes of the Netscape Network.  
If you type in a "searchword" into the searchbox of "http://netscape.com" or "http://channels.netscape.com"  
you'll be automaticly redirected to "http://search.netscape.com" and you'll see the results of your search.  
  
Input passed to the "query" parameter in "search?"-file is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user.   
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.  
  
Sending a malicious code will result a code working on the page that pops up...  
  
http://search.netscape.com/ns/search?query=<script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script>  
  
Example:  
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http://search.netscape.com/ns/search?query=<script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script>  
  
Screenshots:  
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http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/netscape_bug/netscape1.JPG  
http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/netscape_bug/netscape2.JPG  
http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/netscape_bug/netscape3.JPG  
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