[HSC] DNewsWeb Softwares Cross Site Scripting Vulrnability

The DNews News Server is advanced news server software that makes it easy for you to

provide users with fast access to Internet (Usenet) news groups. Installing your own l

ocal news server software also gives you complete control to create your own private

or public discussion forums for enhanced communications across the organization and

Internet. DNews fails to sanitize supplied input, attackers may exploit this issue

via a web client. An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code

execute in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site.

This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch

other attacks.

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Credit: Doz

Risk: Medium

Class: Input Validation Error

Remote: YES

Local: N/A

Vendor: NetWin Ltd

Product: DNewsWeb 57e1

http://netwinsite.com/

Effected Platforms:

- Windows NT,2000,XP

- Linux (All 32 bit variants, RedHat, Suse, Mandrake)

- Solaris 2.7 Sparc

- Solaris 8,9,10 Sparc

- FreeBSD 4.x

- Mac OS/X

Vulrnable Files:

dnewsweb.exe

* Attackers can exploit these issues via a web client.

Exploit:

/cgi-bin/dnewsweb.exe?cmd=PATH&group=XSS

/cgi-bin/dnewsweb.exe?utag=XSS

Google Search: (dnewsweb.exe)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ext%3Aexe+inurl%3A%28%7Cdnewsweb.ex
e%7C%29&btnG=Search

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