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Multiple Vendor Web Vulnerability Scanners HTML Injection Vulnerability

N-Stealth and Nikto, Web vulnerability scanners, are prone to an HTML injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the applications to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in dynamically generated content.

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary HTML or script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user.