webcrawler.com - Cross site scripting vulnerability ----------------------------------------------
Type: Cross site scripting Date: June, 13th 2006 ---------------------------------------------- Credits: ---------------------------------------------- Discovered by: David "Aesthetico" Vieira-Kurz http://www.majorsecurity.de ---------------------------------------------- Vulnerability: ---------------------------------------------- I found a bug in the search-engine of Webcrawler("http://webcrawler.com";). It is vulnerable for cross site scripting. Sending a malicious code will result a code working on the page that pops up... http://msxml.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl/search/web/[XSS CODE HERE] This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. Example: ---------------------------------------------- /info.wbcrwl/search/web/<script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script> Screenshots: ---------------------------------------------- http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/webcrawler_bug/webcrawler1.JPG http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/webcrawler_bug/webcrawler2.JPG
