CVE-2006-2500

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in add_news.asp in CodeAvalanche News (CANews) 1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Headline field. NOTE: if this issue is limited to administrators, and if it is expected behavior for administrators to be able to generate HTML, then this is not a vulnerability.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2006-05-20

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Codeavalanche News (Xfairguy)

References

• http://colander.altervista.org/advisory/CANews.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20171
• http://www.osvdb.org/25653
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434730/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18032
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1870
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26587