From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 09:21:14 CDT

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TITLE:
AWS MySQLguest Script Insertion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12732

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12732/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
MySQLguest
http://secunia.com/product/4008/

DESCRIPTION:
BliZZard has reported a vulnerability in AWS MySQLguest, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to the "Name", "Email", "Homepage", and "Comments"
fields is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be
exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be
executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site
when the malicious guestbook entry is viewed.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
BliZZard

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