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

CVE-2008-7060

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in One-News Beta 2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via the (1) title or (2) content parameters in a news item to add.php, and the (3) itemnum, (4) author, or (5) comment parameters in a comment to index.php. NOTE: vectors 1 and 2 require user authentication.

  • 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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  • Published