webcrawler.com - Cross site scripting vulnerability

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webcrawler.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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Vulnerability:
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I found a bug in the search-engine of Webcrawler("http://webcrawler.com";).
It is vulnerable for cross site scripting.

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

http://msxml.webcrawler.com/info.wbcrwl/search/web/[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.

Example:
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/info.wbcrwl/search/web/<script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script>

Screenshots:
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http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/webcrawler_bug/webcrawler1.JPG
http://majorsecurity.de/advisory/webcrawler_bug/webcrawler2.JPG