XSS in The Hacker News

2013-05-12

Rafay Baloch

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151512827518001&set=a.10150126632093001.289500.538643000&type=1&theater¬+if_t=like

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151513675933001&set=a.10150126632093001.289500.538643000&type=1&theater¬+if_t=like

Security "news" website thehackernews.com had an XSS vulnerability disclosed in its site by Rafay Baloch. A parameter in a redirect page was vulnerable to javascript injection.

hxxp://news.thehackernews.com/go.php?to=javascript:alert(/xssbyrafay/);

The site was claimed to be fixed, but Rafay quickly bypassed the fix with HTTP Parameter Pollution.

hxxp://news.thehackernews.com/go.php?to=javascript:alert(1)//&to=http://a

Maybe THN should think about just removing the useless redirect page.


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