On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:52:47PM +0800, Ganesan Kanavathy wrote:
> On the main page I have two text box for username and password. If
> unsuccessful login it will display bellows url on the address bar.
> 
> https://192.168.1.90/index.php?errorMSG=<font%20color=red>Invalid%20Login%20
> or%20Password</font><br>&nbsp;
> 
> My question is, will it be possible for someone to execute any codes via the
> exposed variable errorMSG variable, like 
> 
> https://192.168.1.90/index.php?errorMSG=phpinfo()&nbsp;

First look, I am sure this is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. Why
are you passing HTML in your errorMSG variable? If you want separate
formatting for different errors, then use an array for all messages and
pass an index into that array.

I will not rule out code execution too.

Binand

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