From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 05:47:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Arctic "query" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20663

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20663/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Arctic 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/10544/

DESCRIPTION:
r0t has reported a vulnerability in Arctic, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "query" form field parameter when performing a
search is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user.
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a
user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.2. Other versions
may also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
r0t

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2006/06/arctic-xss.html

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