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CVSSv2

CVE-2002-0230

Published: 16/05/2002 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in fom.cgi of Faq-O-Matic 2.712 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary Javascript on other clients via the cmd parameter, which causes the script to be inserted into an error message.

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Vendor Advisories

Due to unescaped HTML code Faq-O-Matic returned unverified scripting code to the browser With some tweaking this enables an attacker to steal cookies from one of the Faq-O-Matic moderators or the admin Cross-Site Scripting is a type of problem that allows a malicious person to make another person run some JavaScript in their browser The JavaScri ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/4023/info FAQ-O-Matic is a freely available, open-source FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) manager It is intended to run on Linux and Unix variants FAQ-O-Matic does not sufficiently filter script code from URL parameters It is possible to create a malicious link containing arbitrary script code When a l ...