[Vulnerability Report] Non-persistent XSS at Microsoft

 I had found a reflected XSS issue Microsoft, below is the report.

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Vulnerability Type: Non Persistent XSS

Abstract: The affected url is vulnerable to Non-persistent XSS due to which an attacker is able to take over Microsoft account of logged in user.

Affected Url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/search/?q=<script>;prompt()<script>

Payload: <script>;prompt()</script>

Vulnerability Impact Senario: With Non Persistent Cross Site Scripting(XSS) an attacker can create custom URL with cookie stealing code on visiting which a user's cookie can be stolen and his account can be hijacked.

Vulnerability Reproduction Steps(POC):

1. Visit the URL "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/search/?q="
2. With the parameter "q=" we can inject our payload.

Brief description of the issue:

This vulnerability is caused due to validation present only on the Search textbox present on the webpage. And no validation is present if we provide the same malicious HTML payload directly through the URL.

Proof of Concept:

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[Vulnerability Report] Open Redirect on multiple subdomains of Intel

 

 

 

 

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Vulnerablility Type: Open Redirect ( https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Open_redirect )

 

Vulnerable URL:  

                            

https://communities.intel.com/terms-and-conditions!input.jspa?url=http://evilsite.com

https://<private>.intel.com/external-link.jspa?url=http://evilsite.com

 

Summary: An open redirect is an application that takes a parameter and redirects a user to the parameter value without any validation. This vulnerability is used in phishing attacks to get users to visit malicious sites without realizing it.

 

In the URL described above the parameter url= is vulnerable to open redirect. An attacker is able to provide a custom URL where the victim will be redirected. An attacker can impersonate his malicious URL as Intel's

 

 

 

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