The Weather Channel weather.com Almost All Links Vulnerable to XSS AttacksDomain Description:http://www.weather.com/"The Weather Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television channel which broadcasts weather forecasts and weather-related news and analyses, along with documentaries and entertainment programming related to weather.""As of August 2013, The Weather Channel was received by approximately 99,926,000 American households that subscribe to a pay television service (87.50% of U.S. households with television), making it the most common cable channel in the country." (Wikipedia)Vulnerability description:Almost all links under the domain weather.com are vulnerable to XSS attacks. Attackers just need to add script at the end of The Weather Channel's URLs. Then the scripts will be executed.10 thousands of Links were tested based a self-written tool. During the tests, 76.3% of links belong to weather.com were vulnerable to XSS attacks.The reason of this vulnerability is that Weather Channel uses URLs to construct its and tags without filtering malicious script codes. The vulnerability can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Firefox (26.0) in Ubuntu (12.04) and IE (9.0.15) in Windows 7.POC Codes, e.g.http://www.weather.com/slideshows/main/"--/>">http://www.weather.com/home-garden/home/white-house-lawns-20140316%22--/"--/>">t%28%27justqdjing%27%29%3EPOC Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij78WnzKB4M&feature=youtu.beBlog Details:http://securityrelated.blogspot.sg/2014/11/the-weather-channel-weather.htmlThe Weather Channel has patched this Vulnerability in late November, 2014 (last Week).Reported by:Wang Jing, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.http://www.tetraph.com/wangjing/
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