[Full-disclosure] Firefox UTF-7 Universal XSS

[Paul Szabo]

Building on my previous message

  Firefox explicit charset inheritance
  http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-December/058752.html

now offer a demo of (user-assisted) universal cross-site-scripting in
Firefox. With slight "social engineering", can XSS practically any http
or https sites:

  http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ff-utf7-uxss.html

For technical details, please see

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356280

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   psz at maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia