Title: AWStats 'awstats.pl' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
AWStats is a Perl-based application that provides statistics on server traffic.
The application is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the to the 'awstats.pl' script.
An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
AWStats 6.8 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.
Affected Products:
- AWStats AWStats 6.8
- RedHat Fedora 8
- RedHat Fedora 9
References:
- AWStats: AWStats Homepage
- AWStats: AWStats [ 2001151 ] XSS Issue