It was pointed out to me that I did not adequately explain that WININET
is widely used by Microsoft applications to handle HTTP requests,
*AND* probably be all third-party applications that use Windows APIs to
make HTTP requests. All these applications may be vulnerable to the
issue, though it may be hard to exploit in most (if not all).
According to Microsoft this issue affected MSIE and Edge and was fixed
through…
Throughout November, I plan to release details on vulnerabilities I
found in web-browsers which I’ve not released before. This is the sixth
entry in that series.
The below information is available in more detail on my blog at http://blog.skylined.nl/20161108001.html. There you can find a repro
that triggered this issue in addition to the information below.
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Persistent Cross-Site Scripting in WassUp Real Time Analytics WordPress
Plugin
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Burak Kelebek, October 2016
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Abstract
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A stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)…