SecurityFocus.com Cross Site Scripting

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Original Advisory http://www.dsecrg.com/pages/vul/show.php?id=63  
  
Digital Security Research Group [DSecRG] Advisory #DSECRG-09-007  
  
  
Application: SecurityFocus.com  
Vendor URL: http://www.securityfocus.com  
Bugs: XSS  
Exploits: YES  
Reported: 21.01.2009  
Vendor response: none  
Second report: 23.01.2009  
Vendor response: none  
Third report: 03.02.2009  
Vendor response: No vendor response but vulnerability was fixed.  
Date of Public Advisory: 04.02.2009  
Description: XSS in search module  
Author: Digital Security Reasearch Group [DSecRG] (research [at] dsec [dot] ru)  
  
  
  
Description  
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Securityfocus.com is one of the most popular security resources in Internet is vulnerable to XSS attack.  
  
Linked XSS vulnerability found in search module on whitepapers subdomain http://whitepapers.securityfocus.com/  
  
  
Details  
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Linked XSS vulnerability found in page http://whitepapers.securityfocus.com/index.php  
Vulnerable parameter - "searchword".   
Attacker can inject javascript code into page and send link to administrator or any other user and get his cookie.  
  
  
Example  
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this is the proof of concept example.  
  
http://whitepapers.securityfocus.com/index.php?option=com_advsearch&task=search&searchword=aaaaa"onmouseover="javascript:alert('DSecRG_XSS_POC')"style="position:absolute;left:0;top:0;z-index:99999;width:10000px;height:10000px;"  
  
  
  
  
  
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