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Full Disclosure: Re: Attacking the local LAN via XSS

Re: Attacking the local LAN via XSS

From: Florian Weimer <fw_at_deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:39:45 +0200

* pdp:

> 1. page that is controlled by the attacker, lets call it evil.com
> 2. border router vulnerable to XSS
> 3. user attending evil.com

This has nothing to do with cross-site scripting attacks, it's an
entirely different vulnerability class called cross-site request
forgery (CSRF). A lot of web applications are afffected.

Technically, this is a browser vulnerability, but you can't fix it
there as cross-site requests are too common in the real world.

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