Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in The Rat CMS Pre-Alpha 2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) id parameter to (a) viewarticle.php and (b) viewarticle2.php and the (2) PATH_INFO to viewarticle.php.
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 2
- The Rat CMS - 'viewarticle.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities EDB-31975 · webapps · Jun 26, 2008 · verified
- The Rat CMS - 'viewarticle2.php?id' Cross-Site Scripting EDB-31976 · webapps · Jun 26, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- theratcms-viewarticle-xss(43378) vdb-entry
- 20080626 The Rat CMS (SQL/XSS) Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities mailing-list
- 29959 vdb-entry
- 4612 third-party-advisory