OpenGuestbook 0.5 - 'header.php?title' Cross-Site Scripting

Author: simo64
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2006-06-26
date_updated: 2013-09-06
verified: 1
codes: CVE-2006-3295;OSVDB-26856
tags: 
aliases: 
screenshot_url: 
application_url: 

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18666/info

OpenGuestbook is prone to multiple input-validation vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting and SQL-injection issues, because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

A successful exploit of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, steal cookie-based authentication credentials, or even exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation. Other attacks are also possible.

http://www.example.com/openguestbook/header.php?title=</title>[XSS]