Preliminary research

Ghosts of Encryption Past: Salesforce Marketing Cloud / ExactTarget

Dylan Pindur, Shubham Shah and Adam Kues · Searchlight Cyber

AI-collected research leads through 6 October 2026, including bounded month-by-month reviews of selected social and community sources from January through September. Unranked, incomplete, not community-vetted, and subject to change.

Investigates Salesforce Marketing Cloud email-view encryption by connecting template injection, CBC manipulation and a MicrositeURL encryption oracle. Recovering an accepted legacy XOR format accelerates forging and enumeration, illustrating how cross-feature key reuse and backward-compatible formats can undermine tenant boundaries.

Record

Researcher

Dylan Pindur, Shubham Shah and Adam Kues

Published by

Searchlight Cyber

In the archive

• Collected in the 2026 preliminary research sweep

Tags

• crypto
• ssti
• auth-bypass
• email
• info-leak
• attack-chain
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a02-2021
• owasp-a03-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Dylan Pindur, Shubham Shah and Adam Kues, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host.