bugtraq - Hotbot.com - XSS vulnerability in search engine

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Date: 10 Jun 2006 19:52:41 -0000
From: admin@...orsecurity.de
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Hotbot.com - XSS vulnerability in search engine


Hotbot.com - XSS vulnerability
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Type: Cross site scripting

Date: June, 10th 2006
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Credits:
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Discovered by: David "Aesthetico" Vieira-Kurz
http://www.majorsecurity.de
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Vulnerability:
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I found a bug in the search-engine of Hotbot("http://hotbot.com").

Input passed to the "query" parameter in "index.php" 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.

Sending a malicious code will result a code working on the page that pops up...

http://hotbot.com/index.php?query=[XSS CODE HERE]


Examples:
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/index.php?query=<script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script>
/index.php?query=3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E