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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2005-1486

Severity Medium
Score 5/10

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in FishCart 3.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) trackingnum, (2) reqagree, or (3) m parameter to upstracking.php or (4) nlst parameter to display.php. NOTE: the vendor was not able to reproduce some of the reported vectors but believes that they have been addressed. The original researcher is known to be unreliable.

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CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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