full-disclosure - Re: HomestayFinder XSS Vulnerability in Wikipedia Mirror

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:03:10 +0530
From: "Harry Muchow" <wonderfulandromeda@...il.com>
To: "Matjaz Debelak" <killerx@...s-on.net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: HomestayFinder XSS Vulnerability in Wikipedia
	Mirror

It works for me. JS enabled in your browser?

On 7/11/07, Matjaz Debelak <killerx@...s-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@...am.in
> > http://susam.in/
> >
> >
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