phpWebSite 0.8.3 - 'article.php' Cross-Site Scripting

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2002-2178  
Publish Date: 02 Oct 2002
Author: Sp.IC
                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5864/info

phpWebSite is prone to cross-site scripting attacks.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of HTML tags from URI parameters processed by the 'article.php' script. As a result, an attacker may construct a malicious link to this script which contains arbitrary HTML and script code.

When the malicious link is visited by a web user, the attacker-supplied code will be executed by their web client in the context of the site hosting the vulnerable software.

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