Tuesday, February 26, 2013

McAfee DOM XSS

After Panda Security, AVG, Kaspersky and continuing my project to find XSS flaws on antivirus vendors, I found out a DOM XSS vulnerability located at the McAfee website:
http://www.mcafee.com/us/mcafee-labs.aspx 
 A user could inject code for example:
<img src=f00bar onerror=prompt("xss");>
...on the input text in the form "Search the Threat Library".
When changing the select box it will get the XSS vector executed on the browser.



This "self-XSS" it's a minor security issue but still can be used to trick other users and a good way to check the security policies of McAfee.

 Keep in mind that this issue has been fixed.
My congratulations on the good and fast support from McAfee security team.

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