This host is running Simple Search and is prone to cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Successful exploitation will allow attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of an application. Impact Level: System/Application

No solution or patch was made available for at least one year since disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.

The flaw is caused by improper validation of user-supplied input passed via the 'terms' parameter to 'search.cgi', that allows attackers to execute arbitrary HTML and script code on the web server.

Simple Search version 1.0

• http://packetstormsecurity.org/0908-exploits/simplesearch-xss.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36178
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/52311

---

Updated on 2015-03-25