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WHID 2005-55: Yahoo RSS XSS Vulnerability

Date: 18 December 2005
Incident Type: Vulnerability Disclosure
WASC Threat Classification: Cross-site Scripting

A malicious site can offer users a malformed RSS XML file to be included Yahoo RSS aggregation that would enable stealing Yahoo cookies

References:

Yahoo RSS XSS Vulnerability [alljer.com]

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