Macworld.com - XSS vulnerability

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Macworld.com - XSS vulnerability
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Type: Cross site scripting

Rated as: Low Risk

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 searchField of Macworld("http://macworld.com/search/";).

Input passed to the "qt" parameter in "index.php" 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...

/search/index.php?qt=[XSS CODE HERE]


Examples:
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/search/index.php?qt=script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script>
/search/index.php?qt=3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E