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Cross-Site Printing (Printer Spamming)

Cross Site Printing

Aaron Weaver · img2.helpnetsecurity.com · 23 November 2007

A web page can print on a network printer inside the visitor's LAN. Printers accept raw jobs on port 9100, and a multipart/form-data POST from a hidden iframe reaches them unencoded, so a form or an image tag aimed at an internal address prints attacker text.

Record

Document

Cross Site Printing

Researcher

Aaron Weaver

Published by

img2.helpnetsecurity.com

Date

23 November 2007

Format

Whitepaper

Topic

Other

In the archive

• Ranked #4 in the 2007 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• csrf
• javascript
• abuse-of-functionality
• embedded-device
• iframe
• mitigation
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a04-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Aaron Weaver, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 9 September 2026.