Alumni 1.0.8/1.0.9 - 'index.php?year' Cross-Site Scripting

Author: hadihadi
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2008-05-02 
date_updated: 2014-02-18 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2008-2117;OSVDB-45023 
tags: 
aliases:  
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application_url: 

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29019/info

Project Alumni is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability and an SQL-injection vulnerability because the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

These issues affect Project Alumni 1.0.9; other versions may also be vulnerable.

http://www.example.com/index.php?act=news&year=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>