Utopia News Pro Login.PHP Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

TITLE: Utopia News Pro Login.PHP Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
CLASS: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2007-3129

REMOTE: Yes
LOCAL: No
PUBLISHED: Jun 18 2007 12:00AM
UPDATE: Jun 18 2007 12:00AM
CREDIT: Jesper Jurcenoks from netVigilance Inc. is credited with discovering this issue.
VULNERABLE:

Utopia News Pro Utopia News Pro 1.4
NOT VULNERABLE:

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Discussion

Utopia News Pro is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

Exploiting this vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks on unsuspecting users in the context of the affected website. As a result, the attacker may be able to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

Utopia News Pro version 1.4.0 is vulnerable to this issue; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Exploit

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim into following a malicious URI.

Solution

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor fixes for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: mailto:vuldb@securityfocus.com.

References

References:

PhpLog

BNLug Benevento Linux Users Group