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Re: Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities - XSS


From: "Jeff Williams" <jeff.williams () aspectsecurity com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:08:40 -0400

Check out websleuth -- it takes a little work, but it can do what you
want. The technique is pretty simple -- send a few test tags into each
form field and then see if the responses contain the tag. If so, it's
vulnerable.  Not a terribly sophisticated test, but it'll do since in
most cases there's no reason not to filter out the tags.

http://www.geocities.com/dzzie/sleuth/

--Jeff

Jeff Williams
Aspect Security, Inc.
Securing the Last Mile of the Internet
www.aspectsecurity.com
Jeff.Williams () aspectsecurity com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason binger" <cisspstudy () yahoo com>
To: <pen-test () securityfocus com>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 1:52 AM
Subject: Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities - XSS


Has anyone on the list done much with testing for XSS
vulnerabilities?

Has anyone written a simple work program to test for
these vulnerabilities that they are happy to
distribute so others can do basic testing for these
vulnerabilities?

There a few papers out on this topic, but none that I
hve seen that really focus on the testing side of
things.

Thanks

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