HTTPCS Advisory : Httpcs-129
Product : Monstra
Version : 2.3.1
Date : 19/03/2014
Severity level:
● ○ Less Critical
Description : A vulnerability has been discovered in Monstra, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed via the 'login' parameter to '/index.php?V=login' is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
Page : /index.php?V=login
Variables : login=[VulnHTTPCS]
Type : XSS
Method : POST
Solution : The publisher must sanitize the user's input by using the adequate PHP functions such as htmlentities() function with its EN_QUOTES flag, htmlspecialchars() and so on ...
Credit : HTTPCS [Web Vulnerability Scanner]