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CGIEmail's Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability (cgicso)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Web application abuses
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Workaround
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The remote web server contains the 'CGIEmail' CGI, a web based form to send emails which is vulnerable to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The remote version of this software contains a vulnerability caused by inadequate processing of queries by CGIEmail's cgicso that results in a cross site scripting condition.
Solution
Solution
Modify cgilib.c to contain a stripper function that will remove any HTML or JavaScript tags.