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Re: Interesting


From: bugtraq () cgisecurity net
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:36:18 -0500 (EST)


This is talked about in an older paper of mine.
http://www.cgisecurity.com/papers/header-based-exploitation.txt




http-equiv () excite com wrote:

Here's an interesting one:

xx.x.xx.xx - - [26/Feb/2003:02:36:41 -0500] "GET /html.exe.zip 
HTTP/1.1" 200 2245 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (LINUX; means; Linux Is Not UniX; 
<script>alert('XSS@'+document.URL)</script>; +++ath0)"
 

This is the hijacking of referers, and it's meant to catch people who 
show them in online stats (such as in a weblog).

It's been reported recently at 
http://www.unix-girl.com/mtype/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=726

Steve

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