National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1321
Original release date:03/20/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in webcheck before 1.9.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) url, (2) title, or (3) author name in a crawled page, which is not properly sanitized in the tooltips of a report.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
Solution
Versions before 1.0 are named "linbot" instead of "webcheck".}
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/webcheck/news.html#20060130
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: webcheck-content-xss(25428)
External Source: BID
Name: 17212
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19309