Netscape.com - Cross site scripting vulnerability

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Netscape.com - Cross site scripting vulnerability
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Type: Cross site scripting

Date: June, 13th 2006
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Credits:
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Discovered by: David "Aesthetico" Vieira-Kurz
http://www.majorsecurity.de
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Affected pages:
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1. http://netscape.com
2. http://search.netscape.com
3. http://channels.netscape.com

Vulnerability:
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I found a bug in the search boxes of the Netscape Network.
If you type in a "searchword" into the searchbox of "http://netscape.com"; or "http://channels.netscape.com";
you'll be automaticly redirected to "http://search.netscape.com"; and you'll see the results of your search.

Input passed to the "query" parameter in "search?"-file is not 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.

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

http://search.netscape.com/ns/search?query=<script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script>

Example:
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http://search.netscape.com/ns/search?query=<script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script>

Screenshots:
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http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/netscape_bug/netscape1.JPG
http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/netscape_bug/netscape2.JPG
http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/netscape_bug/netscape3.JPG