Other nomination

Google Hacks On Your Behalf

Commentary on SecuriTeam's finding that search-engine crawlers can be made to attack on the attacker's behalf: links planted on the open web cause Google to fetch PHP remote-include payloads into third-party sites. The same follow-every-link behaviour triggers auto-delete functions and reflected XSS, and pre-fetching browsers share the flaw.

In the archive

• Nominated for the 2006 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• php
• abuse-of-functionality
• ssrf
• proxy
• case-study
• rce
• large-scale-scan
• owasp-a04-2021
• owasp-a10-2021

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