TITLE:
Modular Merchant Shopping Cart "cat" Cross-Site Scripting
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18320

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18320/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Modular Merchant Shopping Cart
http://secunia.com/product/6755/

DESCRIPTION:
Preddy has reported a vulnerability in Modular Merchant Shopping
Cart, which can be exploited can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "cat" parameter in "category.php" isn't 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.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Preddy, RootShell Security Group

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