full-disclosure - Re: PayPal donation form reveals beneficiary's email address

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Message-ID: <6f4bb0b50905022002i87aed56n707963eeb3fc0b4c@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 23:02:23 -0400
From: ghost <ghosts@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: PayPal donation form reveals beneficiary's
	email address

You wrote a security advisory with 11 references which you provided on
the bottom simply to say...

paypal leaks your e-mail address.

The security industry is not for you, go back to checkers.

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Eitan Caspi <eitancaspi@...oo.com> wrote:
> I agree Frank, and so I wrote "By clicking a recent version (so I believe, I can't trace and test various versions) of a PayPal Donation button...".
>
> It doesn't happen in ALL of the donation buttons. I also believe this happens mostly in button codes created by the PayPal site and less or at all in donation buttons/forms manually created by the beneficiary at its own site, and I think the site you linked to is made just with this kind of manual code.
>
> Eitan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Dietrich [mailto:bits_n_bytes@....de]
> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 8:50 PM
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
> Cc: eitancaspi@...oo.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] PayPal donation form reveals beneficiary's email address
>
> Hi Eitan,
>
> Eitan Caspi <eitancaspi@...oo.com> wrote:
>>3. At the donation request page you landed at  click the donation
>>button ...
>>[...]
>>4. Read the beneficiary's primary email address at the top of the
>>donation form in PayPal (located in the "h1" section of the HTML
>>code of the form).
>
> May be not true for every paypal donation form.
> If you click on following site on the doante button
>  http://www.art-stream.org/donate.php#donate-now
> there is no email address in the page source.
> Or I don't get the point.
>
> regards
> Frank
> --
>
>
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