K2News Management 1.3 - 'Ratings.php' Cross-Site Scripting

Author: meto5757
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 0
date_added: 2006-09-13
date_updated: 2013-09-25
verified: 1
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19994/info

k2News Management is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.

http://www.example.com/index.php?errcode=<script>alert(document.cookie);</script>