CSS Exfil Vulnerability

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Sampei Nihira

CSS Exfil Vulnerability

Unread post by Sampei Nihira » 2018-11-05, 07:18

https://www.mike-gualtieri.com/css-exfi ... ity-tester

Pale Moon is vulnerable.
At least this results from the test.

Is it possible to remedy this?

TH.
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Re: CSS Exfil Vulnerability

Unread post by Moonchild » 2018-11-05, 13:59

It's bad website design abused. This isn't up to a browser to fix.

Details:
This "vulnerability" relies on bad form design:

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value="<?php echo $_GET['username']; ?>
Anyone with an ounce of php knowledge on public-facing websites knows that this is asking for XSS. You NEVER, EVER reflect back PHP variables unsanitized.
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Sampei Nihira

Re: CSS Exfil Vulnerability

Unread post by Sampei Nihira » 2018-11-05, 17:20

Mike Gualtieri has developed an extension for Chrome and Firefox ****:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... kifo?hl=en

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... rotection/

What do you think about it?
It's useless?

Thank you very much. :thumbup:


**** = Can not be installed with Pale Moon and Basilisk
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Re: CSS Exfil Vulnerability

Unread post by JustOff » 2018-11-05, 17:41

I can't say how effective it is, but at first glance it certainly has a bad impact on performance and can potentially break websites.

Sampei Nihira

Re: CSS Exfil Vulnerability

Unread post by Sampei Nihira » 2018-11-06, 18:13

E-mail to Mike Gualtieri:

Subject: A Legacy version your extension.
Message: Hi Mike Is it possible to obtain a legacy version of its extension for the protection of browsers such as Pale Moon and Basilisk? It would be greatly appreciated. TH.

Mike's answer:

Sampei,

Thanks for your note! I'll certainly consider it, but I can't promise anything. You are the first to ask for this. As you may already know, to provide functionality for Pale Moon and similar browsers, it would require a complete rewrite of the plugin under the XUL framework. It's been about 10 years since I've played around with XUL so there would need to be some exploration into how the plugin might work before anything.

Mike

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