PT-2006-3447 · Codeavalanche · Codeavalanche News

Published 2006-05-20 · Updated 2018-10-18 · CVE-2006-2500

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CodeAvalanche News (CANews) version 1.2

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Headline field in add news.asp. This could potentially lead to the execution of malicious scripts. However, if this issue is limited to administrators and it is expected behavior for them to generate HTML, then it may not be considered a vulnerability.

Recommendations For CodeAvalanche News (CANews) version 1.2, consider validating and sanitizing user input in the Headline field to prevent the injection of malicious scripts. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to the add news.asp page to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-2500

Affected Products

Codeavalanche News

References · 8

• 🔥 http://colander.altervista.org/advisory/CANews.txt · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2500 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/25653 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26587 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/434730/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/18032 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1870 · Note