From: Serg B. (sergicles@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 00:17:56 EDT
You could just try inputing hexidecimal encoded strings. Chances are
they would get converted to "real" strings on the way out - hello XSS.
On 03/08/06, James Harless <jharless@kidwellcompanies.com> wrote:
> Hmm...
>
> Knowing that all apostrophes are escaped with backlsashes...and that is the
> only character checked for...my first instinct is to put a backslash before
> the apostrophe.ie 'Nancy\'s' as the input.
>
> So, then the function would add another escape character, correct? Then you
> would essentially escape the backslash and leave the apostrophe intact,
> right? Or..am I off base here?
>
> I'm picturing the final function looking like:
>
> MyFunc('Nancy\\'s','hamster');
>
> It seems like that could be put to evil use.
>
> James
>
> On 8/2/06 7:57 AM, "Tim" <tim-pentest@sentinelchicken.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > After a discussion with our moderator about list content, I decided I'll
> > try to encourage some more in-depth technical discussion about the
> > exploitation certain quirky bugs. So, here's one that I came across a
> > while back.
> >
> > It is an exploitable XSS bug, but it isn't immediately obvious (at least
> > it wasn't to me) how it can be exploited. Suppose we have a dynamically
> > generated web page which contains the following line of JavaScript:
> >
> > myFunc('FOO', 'BAR');
> >
> > In this page, the user can control both the values of FOO and BAR. In
> > other words, this JavaScript is dynamically generated. Here's the
> > catch: The values FOO and BAR are both checked for apostrophe (single
> > quote) characters. Any instances of these are escaped with backslashes.
> > For instance, if a user supplied values "Nancy's" and "hamster" for FOO
> > and BAR, respectively, then the following line would be generated:
> >
> > myFunc('Nancy\'s', 'hamster');
> >
> > Apostrophe is the only character checked for, in all it's variants
> > (unicode?). Let us suppose an attacker can inject arbitrary binary data
> > in those strings.
> >
> > Now, like I said, I know of one way to exploit this behavior to inject
> > almost arbitrary JavaScript. I'm hoping this will prompt an interesting
> > discussion on the topic of browser behavior and perhaps learn of other
> > ways it can be exploited.
> >
> > cheers,
> > tim
> >
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