Full Disclosure mailing list archives

Re: HomestayFinder XSS Vulnerability in Wikipedia Mirror


From: "Harry Muchow" <wonderfulandromeda () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:03:10 +0530

It works for me. JS enabled in your browser?

On 7/11/07, Matjaz Debelak <killerx () sess-on net> wrote:
Well, it does not appear to work for me in any browser (tested Firefox
2.0.0.3 and Konqueror).

LP Killer_X

Susam Pal wrote:
There is an XSS vulnerability in HomestayFinder's 'Dictionary.aspx'
script which is responsible for mirroring the content of Wikipedia. I
found this interesting because here a script injected in one website
exploits an XSS vulnerability in another website.

I am including only a short example to demonstrate the issue. The
complete document is available at:-
http://susam.in/security/advisory-2007-07-11.txt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Susam_pal/Sandbox consists of the
following as the source wiki markup:

   <script>alert('XSS Demo')</script>

http://www.homestayfinder.com/Dictionary.aspx?q=User:Susam_pal/Sandbox
consists of the same code as HTML without the special characters encoded
as HTML entities. Hence, the script is executed on the browser of the
visitor.

Contact Information:-
Susam Pal
susam () susam in
http://susam.in/


_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/


_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/


_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/


Current thread: