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Cross-site File Upload Attacks

pdp shows that Flash defeats the assumption that file uploads cannot be forged cross-site. A compiled MXML application builds a URLRequest with a hand-written multipart/form-data body, including the filename sub-field HTML forms cannot express, and navigateToURL posts it to the victim's upload endpoint.

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pdp
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gnucitizen.org
Topic
Server

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