This could be also used in some cases to Refer requests from "paypal" or such payment systems when there is no/bad validation checks on an e-commerce website.
ie:
if(Referer.Contains("paypal.com"))
{ ok }
but what if i control "mypaypal.com"?
Le 24/01/2012 20:14, Jan Wrobel a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this is not new, but I didn't manage to find any mention of
> such a technique.
>
> In short: HTTP referer field contains information where the web user
> is coming from, which is often a trusted site such as a web search.
> Having such information, a malicious web site can use several tricks
> to fool the user into thinking that he or she returned to the
> referring site. In fact, the user is taken to a generic phishing site
> that intercepts all data exchanged between the user, the referring
> site and sites visited from the referring site.
>
> More detailed write up with few examples is here:
> http://mixedbit.org/referer.html
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
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