full-disclosure - Re: Script Injection in Google Groups Beta

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Message-ID: <4b6ee93104121714167393617d@mail.gmail.com>
From: xploitable at gmail.com (n3td3v)
Subject: Re: Script Injection in Google Groups Beta

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:59:00 +0000, n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:29:24 +0000, n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com> wrote:
> > When I was testing Google Groups Beta
> > (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/n3td3v) I found the script tags
> > executed on the Google Groups site. This only seems to work while
> > clicking on a reply thread, using the reply menu, featured on a given
> > groups homepage, when an older thread gets a reply.
> >
> > If the thread reply you try to open has a script in it, then the
> > script executes, instead of taking you to the reply to the thread you
> > were attempting to view.
> >
> > An attacker can send a reply to a thread on Google Groups Beta with a
> > carefully crafted script in it, to exploit Google Group Beta users!
> >
> > This is probably just the tip of the ice berg of something bigger, but
> > I thought I better mention it before malicious users started
> > exploiting people.
> >
> > Discovered today by n3td3v.
> >
> > Thanks, n3td3v.
> >
> 
> Proof of concept:
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/n3td3v/browse_thread/thread/2379f18f5986c985
> 

Forget my original e-mail... you just need to view any thread from a
given Google Groups Beta site and you can be vulnerable.