Edmund Lian wrote:
> On 01/03/2003 07:57:08 PM Edmund Lian wrote:
> Oh yes, there is another even simpler way to get at a URL-encoded session
> ID... the rogue user only has to post an image with a href pointing back to
> their computer. This way, a victim doesn't even have to click on a URL to
> be exposed, he/she only has to view a message with the externally-sourced
> image.

Ah.  I've now been enlightened. :)  Thank you, Edmund, Stuart, and Tavis.
The referer header is something which I certainly need to watch for.  Sites
I develop are more usually shopping cart or product sites than community
sites, so I hadn't encountered that possibility.

-- 
Randall Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"[The] poetic justice of cause and effect compels
 respect, compassion." -- Faithless, God is a DJ.



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