Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in auth.php in Pineapple Technologies QuizShock 1.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via encoded special characters in the forward_to parameter, as demonstrated using "<"<".
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- QuizShock 1.6.1 - 'auth.php' HTML Injection EDB-29824 · webapps · Apr 9, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 24831 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2007-1319 vdb-entry
- 23368 vdb-entry
- 20070408 QuizShock 1.6.1 - Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability mailing-list
- http://john-martinelli.com/work/quizshock.txt
- quizshock-auth-xss(33523) vdb-entry
- 2554 third-party-advisory