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Stealing Basic Auth with Persistent XSS

Steals HTTP Basic credentials without cross-site tracing: many PHP installs leave a phpinfo() page that prints PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW. An XSS on the same host fetches that page with XMLHTTP, splits out the username and password, and exfiltrates both through an image src. Part 2 of the author's basic-auth series.

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Researcher
Mike Zusman
Published by
schmoil.blogspot.com
Topic
XSS

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