PayPal Bug Bounty #121 - Bypass & Persistent Vulnerability

Document Title:
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PayPal Bug Bounty #121 - Bypass & Persistent Vulnerability


References:
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1696

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilLmbVC7RVY

Advisory: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1627



Release Date:
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2016-03-29


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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1696


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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3.7


Discovery Status:
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Published


Exploitation Technique:
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Remote


Severity Level:
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Low


Technical Details & Description:
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A filter bypass issue and a persistent input validation (mail encoding) web vulnerability has been discovered in the official PayPal Inc online-service web-application.
The validation and mail encoding web vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject own malicious script codes to the mail header of the portal mails.


Credits & Authors:
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Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team] - Benjamin Kunz Mejri ([email protected]) [www.vulnerability-lab.com]


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