AldWeb MiniPortail 1.9/2.x - 'LNG' Cross-Site Scripting

Author: Bahaa Naamneh
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2003-08-27 
date_updated: 2012-12-02 
verified: 1 
codes: OSVDB-2481 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8504/info

cross-site scripting vulnerability has been reported for miniPortail. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of some user-supplied values. Specifically, malicious HTML code is not sanitized from a URI parameter passed to miniPortail.

An attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitrary HTML code in the browser of a remote user who follows a malicious link.

http://www.example.com/?lng=<script>