A vulnerability was found in Alkacon OpenCms 6.0.2/6.0.3 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenCms 6.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified search parameters.

The weakness was released 12/21/2005 by r0t (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-4475 since 12/22/2005. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Alkacon

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• 6.0.2
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