From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 16:47:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Simple Search "terms" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36178

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36178/

DESCRIPTION:
599eme Man has reported a vulnerability in Simple Search, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input passed via the "terms" parameter to search.cgi 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 is reported in version 1.0. Other versions may also
be affected.

SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters or character sequences in a web proxy.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
599eme Man

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/0908-exploits/simplesearch-xss.txt

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