[Full-disclosure] Exploiting reflected XSS vulnerabilities, where user input must come through HTTP Request headers

[kuza55 <kuza55@xxxxxxxxx>]

Contents:
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1.0 Introduction
2.0 The User_Agent Header
3.0 (Known) Firefox & Safari Request Header Injection (Sometimes)
4.0 Attacking Caching Proxies
5.0 References


1.0 Introduction
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Ever since Adobe patched Flash player to stop attackers spoofing
certain headers such as Referer, User-Agent, etc, it has been
considered impossible to exploit XSS vulnerabilities where the user
input is taken from a request header, e.g. when a website prints out
what User-Agent a user's browser is sending, without escaping it. With
the exception of the Referer header which we can control enough to
exploit XSS attacks through it.

I want to showcase several ways in which we can still exploit these
vulnerabilities.

The rest of the write-up is at:
http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2007/07/exploiting-reflected-xss.html

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