[Zope-dev] New: Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:57:59 -0700


What does this have to do with Zope? Its down to an individual application.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ALife" <buginfo@inbox.ru>
To: <Zope-Dev@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: [Zope-dev] New: Cross Site Scripting vulnerability


> 
> Example:
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/<SCRIPT>alert(document.domain)</SCRIPT>
> http://www.zope.org/lalalalal<SCRIPT>alert(document.domain)</SCRIPT>
> http://www.zope.org/<SCRIPT>alert(document.cookie)</SCRIPT>
> 
> For  example, an attacker might post a message like
> 
>         Hello message board. This is a message.
>                <SCRIPT>malicious code</SCRIPT>
>         This is the end of my message.
> 
>     When a victim with scripts enabled  in their  browser reads this
> message,  the  malicious  code   may  be  executed   unexpectedly.
>     Scripting tags that can be embedded in this way include <SCRIPT>,
> <OBJECT>, <APPLET>, and <EMBED>.
> 
> 
> 
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