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Exponential XSS Attacks

RSnake · ha.ckers.org · 11 December 2006

Maluc's idea developed: one XSS foothold is used to exploit XSS on other domains, cascading across every site a user is authenticated to. Grossman's CSS history hack picks which domains to try, and XMLHttpRequest with an XSS proxy, IE's Expect/Flash trick and the mhtml cross-domain leak keep the shell alive as the user navigates away.

Record

Researcher

RSnake

Published by

ha.ckers.org

Date

11 December 2006

Topic

XSS

In the archive

• Ranked #7 in the 2006 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• xss
• attack-chain
• javascript
• sop-bypass
• side-channel
• mime
• flash
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a03-2021
• owasp-a05-2021

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