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Macworld.com - XSS vulnerability
Macworld.com - XSS vulnerability
Macworld.com - XSS vulnerability



Macworld.com - XSS vulnerability=0D
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Type: Cross site scripting=0D
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Rated as: Low Risk=0D
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Date: June, 13th 2006=0D
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Discovered by: David "Aesthetico" Vieira-Kurz=0D
http://www.majorsecurity.de=0D 
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I found a bug in the searchField of Macworld("http://macworld.com/search/").=0D 
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Input passed to the "qt" parameter in "index.php" is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. =0D
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.=0D
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Sending a malicious code will result a code working on the page that pops up...=0D
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/search/index.php?qt=[XSS CODE HERE]=0D
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/search/index.php?qt=script>alert("MajorSecurity")=0D
/search/index.php?qt=3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E

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