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A JavaScript Injection vulnerability is a subtype of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) that involves the ability to inject arbitrary JavaScript code that is executed by the application inside the victim's browser. This vulnerability can have many consequences, like disclosure of a user's session cookies that could be used to impersonate the victim, or, more generally, it can allow the attacker to modify the page content seen by the victims or the application behavior. | A JavaScript Injection vulnerability is a subtype of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) that involves the ability to inject arbitrary JavaScript code that is executed by the application inside the victim's browser. This vulnerability can have many consequences, like disclosure of a user's session cookies that could be used to impersonate the victim, or, more generally, it can allow the attacker to modify the page content seen by the victims or the application behavior. | ||
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Such vulnerability occurs when the application lacks of a proper user supplied input and output validation. JavaScript is used to dynamically populate web pages, this injection occur during this content processing phase and consequently affect the victim. | Such vulnerability occurs when the application lacks of a proper user supplied input and output validation. JavaScript is used to dynamically populate web pages, this injection occur during this content processing phase and consequently affect the victim. | ||
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Black box testing for JavaScript Execution is not usually performed since access to the source code is always available as it needs to be sent to the client to be executed.<br> | Black box testing for JavaScript Execution is not usually performed since access to the source code is always available as it needs to be sent to the client to be executed.<br> | ||
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'''Testing for JavaScript Execution vulnerabilities:''' | '''Testing for JavaScript Execution vulnerabilities:''' | ||
Revision as of 13:28, 8 August 2014
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Summary
A JavaScript Injection vulnerability is a subtype of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) that involves the ability to inject arbitrary JavaScript code that is executed by the application inside the victim's browser. This vulnerability can have many consequences, like disclosure of a user's session cookies that could be used to impersonate the victim, or, more generally, it can allow the attacker to modify the page content seen by the victims or the application behavior.
How to Test
Such vulnerability occurs when the application lacks of a proper user supplied input and output validation. JavaScript is used to dynamically populate web pages, this injection occur during this content processing phase and consequently affect the victim.
When trying to exploit this kind of issues, consider that some characters are treated differently by different browsers. For reference see the DOM XSS Wiki.
The following script does not perform any validation of the variable rr that contains the user supplied input via the query string and additionally does not apply any form of encoding:
var rr = location.search.substring(1); if(rr) window.location=decodeURIComponent(rr); This implies that an attacker could inject JavaScript code simply by submitting the following query string: www.victim.com/?javascript:alert(1)
Black Box testing
Black box testing for JavaScript Execution is not usually performed since access to the source code is always available as it needs to be sent to the client to be executed.
Gray Box testing
Testing for JavaScript Execution vulnerabilities:
For example, looking at the following URL: http://www.domxss.com/domxss/01_Basics/04_eval.html
The page contains the following scripts:
<script>
function loadObj(){
var cc=eval('('+aMess+')');
document.getElementById('mess').textContent=cc.message;
}
if(window.location.hash.indexOf('message')==-1)
var aMess="({\"message\":\"Hello User!\"})";
else
var aMess=location.hash.substr(window.location.hash.indexOf('message=')+8);
</script>
The above code contains a source 'location.hash' that is controlled by the attacker that can inject directly in the 'message' value a JavaScript Code to take the control of the user browser.
References
OWASP Resources
Whitepapers
- Browser location/document URI/URL Sources - https://code.google.com/p/domxsswiki/wiki/LocationSources
- i.e., what is returned when the user asks the browser for things like document.URL, document.baseURI, location, location.href, etc.
