GNATS XSS vulnerability

Monday, 21 May 2007

Vuln. discovered by : r0t
Date: 19 May 2007
vendor:http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/
affected versions: Gnatsweb v4.00, Gnats v4.1.99
Gnats contains a flaw that allows a remote Cross-Site Scripting attacks.Input passed to the "database" parameter in "gnatsweb.pl" isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user.

This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Original article:
http://pridels-team.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post.html