landslides.usgs.gov cross-site-scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Security researcher PaPPy, has submitted on 07/01/2010 a cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting landslides.usgs.gov, which at the time of submission ranked 2267 on the web according to Alexa.
We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 08/02/2010. It is currently fixed.

Date submitted: 07/01/2010

Date published: 08/02/2010

Date fixed: 15/04/2010

Status:

FIXED

Author: PaPPy

Domain: landslides.usgs.gov

Category: XSS

Pagerank: 2267

URL: http://landslides.usgs.gov/recent/index.php?year="></a><script>alert(1);</script>

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