HexBrain

Algolia · Report #156387

Stored XSS from Display Settings triggered on Save and viewing realtime search demo

Validstatus
4upvotes
7 Sept 2016disclosed

How it was found

Here are the steps to trigger the XSS:

  1. Create a JSON record that will contain the following attribute: {"<img src=1 onerror=alert(document.domain)>": "XSS attribute"}

  2. Go to Indices -> Display and select the attribute <img src=1 onerror=alert(document.domain)> under Attributes for Faceting and click save.

  3. Note that XSS is triggered multiple times on that page.

  4. XSS is now triggered on https://www.algolia.com/explorer#?index=index_name as it also shows the attribute.

  5. Create a public UI Demo and to the public url, xss is triggered. I've created a demo url: https://www.algolia.com/realtime-search-demo/xsstest

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