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XSS in Skype for iOS

XSS in Skype for iOS — Superevr

superevr · Superevr · 19 September 2011

Skype 3.0.1 and earlier for iPhone renders chat in a local HTML file without encoding the sender's Full Name, so a crafted name runs JavaScript when the victim opens the message. Worse, the embedded WebKit view runs under the file:// scheme rather than about:blank, giving script read access to the app sandbox. The author demonstrates stealing the device AddressBook.

Record

Document

XSS in Skype for iOS — Superevr

Researcher

superevr

Published by

Superevr

Date

19 September 2011

Topic

XSS

In the archive

• Collected in the 2011 research round

Tags

• xss
• ios
• info-leak
• sandbox-escape
• same-origin-policy
• case-study
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a03-2021

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