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Vulnerability Development: Re: 5 char XSS?

Re: 5 char XSS?

From: Serg B <sergeslists_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:53:47 +1000

Am I the only one who sees the irony of an XSS related email/question
and example URLs to click? Heh.

   Serg

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Kristian Erik Hermansen
<kristian.hermansen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Just been noticing all the talk about Obama and Clinton sites and how
> the media keeps making a big deal out of all these XSS vulns, heh.
> However, I have a rather technical question about what, if anything,
> you can do when you have such a small buffer to exploit XSS? Check
> out this one I found and is not listed by xssed.com for
> hillaryclinton.com. You only get 5 chars to inject. So, are there
> any tricks that could possibly be used to expand the limitation via
> perhaps some unicode kung-fu here? Dunno, but thought it might be
> insteresting bring up because this is a common scenario in zip code
> search fields. The fix for Clinton is as simple as whitelisting the
> input field set to [0-9]...
>
> http://www.hillaryclinton.com/actioncenter/event/?mt=0&d=250&z=%22%3EXSS&s=z&EventSearchAndResults%3A_ctl0.x=0&EventSearchAndResults%3A_ctl0.y=0
>
> Regards,
> --
> Kristian Erik Hermansen
> --
> "Clever ones don't want the future told. They make it."
>
Received on Apr 28 2008

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