PT-2006-2610 · Awebnews · Awebnews

Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu · Published 2006-04-04 · Updated 2018-10-18 · CVE-2006-1612

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: aWebNews version 1.0

Description: The issue concerns multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the yname, emailadd, subject, and comment parameters.

Recommendations: For aWebNews version 1.0, consider validating and sanitizing user input for the yname, emailadd, subject, and comment parameters to prevent XSS attacks. As a temporary workaround, restrict user input to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-1612

Affected Products

Awebnews

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1612 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19487 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/24333 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1196 · Note
• http://evuln.com/vulns/116/summary.html · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25589 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/707 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/431007/100/0/threaded · Note