Re: Google PR Mechanism Possible Vulnerability

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Using Cross Site Scripting to perform blackhat SEO tricks is well known in the blackhat seo underground and documented
on sites such as seoblackhat.com.

This method is rather useful however easily traced back, and has the side effect of indexing the attack in google 
(making
it easy to find sites that 'url spammer A' has *attacked* with cross site scripting). While a spider indexing an XSS
attack isn't really an 'attack' per say, it does index the issue and can allow it to be discovered and utilized for 
other
purposes.  

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> PageRank is a formula developed by Google Search Engine to determine a web
> pages "inbound link ranking" which affects its postion in search results.
> To keep it basic we can say the more inbound link your webpage has, the
> higher is its pagerank.
> As you all can guess, the inbound links are calculated during the crawling
> process of googlebot. The trick comes to place in this part.
> Lets say we have a page A, and a page B which is indexed by Google and
> another page C which we dont own.
> What if we put some links like below on the "Page B":
> <a href="
> http://www.pagec.com/somepagewithxss.php?i=%3E%3Ca%20href%3D%22http%3A//www.pagea.com/pagea.html%22%3Euberalle%3C/a%3E
> "></a>
> As you guess when googlebot will follow the link on Page B and index page C,
> it will see a link like:
> <a href="http://www.pagea.com/pagea.html";>uberalle</a>
> And so inbound link count of "Page A" will increase, which will finally
> increase the PR of "Page A" with the repeat of this process with different
> pages that contains css flaws.
> All this information is theoretic, and I never had time to spend for trying
> this.
> You can find the original version of this advisory on:
> http://www.hoccam.com/pr.html
>
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> <font size="-1">PageRank is a formula developed by Google Search Engine to determine a web pages &quot;inbound link 
> ranking&quot; which affects its postion in search results.</font><br>To keep it basic we can say the more inbound 
> link your webpage has, the higher is its pagerank.
> <br>As you all can guess, the inbound links are calculated during the crawling process of googlebot. The trick comes 
> to place in this part.<br>Lets say we have a page A, and a page B which is indexed by Google and another page C which 
> we dont own.
> <br>What if we put some links like below on the &quot;Page B&quot;:<br>&lt;a href=&quot;<a 
> href="http://www.pagec.com/somepagewithxss.php?i=%3E%3Ca%20href%3D%22http%3A//www.pagea.com/pagea.html%22%3Euberalle%3C/a%3E";>http://www.pagec.com/somepagewithxss.php?i=%3E%3Ca%20href%3D%22http%3A//www.pagea.com/pagea.html%22%3Euberalle%3C/a%3E
> </a>&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;<br>As you guess when googlebot will follow the link on Page B and index page C, it will see 
> a link like:<br>&lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://www.pagea.com/pagea.html";>http://www.pagea.com/pagea.html
> </a>&quot;&gt;uberalle&lt;/a&gt;<br>And so inbound link count of &quot;Page A&quot; will increase, which will finally 
> increase the PR of &quot;Page A&quot; with the repeat of this process with different pages that contains css flaws.
> <br>All this information is theoretic, and I never had time to spend for trying this.<br>You can find the original 
> version of this advisory on: <a href="http://www.hoccam.com/pr.html";>http://www.hoccam.com/pr.html</a><br>
> <br>Cumhur Onat<br><a href="mailto:cumhuronat () php net">cumhuronat () php net</a><br><a href="mailto:cumhuronat () 
> gmail com">cumhuronat () gmail com</a><br>
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