Other nomination

Diminutive Worm, 161 byte Web Worm

RSnake wraps up the Diminutive Worm Contest, won jointly by Giorgio Maone and Sirdarckcat with a 161-byte cross-site scripting worm; cross-browser and Apache-interoperability rules narrowed the field. Announces a follow-up paper claiming a way to slow worm propagation, plus planned work on propagation analytics and worm tracking. The winning code itself sits in the linked sla.ckers forum thread.

In the archive

• Nominated for the 2008 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Related sources

• Companion research paper

Tags

• xss
• javascript
• defence
• mitigation
• case-study
• owasp-a03-2021

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