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

CVE-2005-3511

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Spymac Web OS 4.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (a) the blogs module, including the (1) curr parameter in index.php, (2) inspire, (3) system, or (4) title parameter in blog_newentry.php, (5) entry parameter in blog_newentry_comment.php, (6) entry parameter in blog_edit_entry.php, or (7) caldate parameter in blog.php; and (b) the notes module, including the (1) forwardid parameter in a noteform action; (2) del_folder parameter in a delete_folder action; (3) isread, (4) dateorder, (5) subjectorder, (6) curr, (7) fromorder, or (8) action parameters; (9) ppp or (10) totalreplies parameter in an Inbox action; (11) totalnotes parameter; or (12) touserid parameter in a noteform action.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

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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