RE: XSS vulnerabiilty testing and impact

["Arian J. Evans" <arian.evans () anachronic com>]

You say the attack surface is limited to only yourself,
but...

Google "Session Riding", "CSRF" and look at scripts like
this: http://www.spidynamics.com/spilabs/js-port-scan/
to give you an idea of all the things you can potentially
do with an arbitrary script injection vulnerability.

Two important principles to absorb:

1) You don't always know WTH your browser is busy doing

2) It's not always *you* that guiding your browser

-ae

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Zhong [mailto:sagiko () gmail com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:34 PM
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: XSS vulnerabiilty testing and impact
>
> Hi,
> I noticed that a very common way to detecting XSS in a lot of
> penetration testing tools is to input the script in the form fields
> and checking the return after submission. If the returned page
> contains the original user input and execute the script, then we
> confirm that user input is not sanitized and XSS exists.
>
> My question is if the user inputs are not displayed to any other users
> ANYWHERE in the application, what's the impact of this XSS
> vulnerability? Or are we still consider this as an XSS vulnerability?
> Can malicious intruders still take advantage of this?
>
>
> regards,
> Rick Zhong
>
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