[Full-disclosure] Firefox bookmark cross-domain surfing vulnerability

[Daniel Veditz]

pdp (architect) wrote:
> However, here is an interesting thought for you: instead of asking the
> user into bookmarking a page you can supply the bookmark directly to
> their browser by using Live Bookmarks. So, a mainstream attack will be
> when a SPLOG network injects malicious links into their feeds. If
> someone happens to be subscribed to this network with a Live Bookmark
> and they click on it... well you know.
> 
> I haven't tested this, although it should work.

It doesn't work -- thankfully we thought of that back when we implemented
Live Bookmarks in Firefox 1.0