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XSS vulnerability in names.co.uk framed hosting


From: reuben.31 () nickname net
Date: 7 Nov 2005 05:17:53 -0000

names.co.uk is an English registrar and web hosting company.

Their frames-based hosting option has an XSS vulnerability allowing injection of arbitrary Javascript.  For example:

http://www.weddingbiz.co.uk/%22%3E%3Cframe%20src%3D%22javascript%3Aalert%281%29%22%20

According to webhosting.info, names.co.uk hosts 75k domains.  If even a few percent are using the frames-based hosting 
option, then this vulnerability would affect thousands of sites.

This vulnerability was reported twice to names.co.uk in early September 2005 (ticket SU197304).  Their response was 
that it was not a security risk.


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