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AFCommerce Shopping Cart



The 'Demo Store' version of the AFCommerce Shopping Cart (www.afcommerce.com) 
is vulnerable to both SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting (XSS).

SQL Injection can be tested by inserting the classic 'or 1=1-- into the search 
field.  The result is that the first record is returned.  We can also perform a 
UNION to return all the records.

The XSS vulnerability can be tested by registering as a new user and selecting 
to add a new review to a product.  In the 'new review' text box we can insert 
some text such as:

   <b>some text</b><script>alert("xxx")</script>

With this text inserted we can view the product and select 'reviews'.  Upon 
doing this our Alert box is executed with 'xxx' then the page is displayed with 
the 'some text' being displayed as bold.  

This are only simple example to test for these vulnerabilites.  An attacker 
could take full advantage of these two vulnerabilities to attack the database, 
include malicious code or deface the site.