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XSS Lightning talk

XSS Lightning talk

Held at Open Space Århus March 2012

Johnny Vestergaard

March 06, 2012
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  1. XSS - Cross Site Scripting Worst name ever?? • Think

    of it as "JavaScript Injection". ◦ (and ignore the haters) • Injection of malicious JavaScript on a site with the intend of client side execution. • Three types: Reflected, Persistent and DOM based. • We will focus on Persistent XSS tonight.
  2. Having a client side party • Possibilities ◦ Host scanning

    of client-side LAN ◦ Session takeover (cookie stealing) ◦ Eavesdropping ▪ Keylogging ▪ Events ◦ Complete control of the page • Limitations ◦ Confined to the browser
  3. Do it yourself Whitehat style • Backtrack 5 ◦ http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

    • OWASP Broken Web Applications Project ◦ VMware image with broken web apps ◦ http://bit.ly/yNsF9K • Cookie Monster ◦ http://gist.github.com/1968842 • Slides ◦ http://www.slideshare.net/JohnnyKV/