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Khan Academy · Report #438953

Cross site scripting (content-sniffing)

Validstatus
mediumseverity
9upvotes
8 Dec 2018disclosed

How it was found

Your website may be vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks

HTTP request: GET /api/internal/mt/user/videos/VIVIegSt81k/log_compatability?captions_locale=&casing=camel&client_dt=2018-11-11T01:56:55%2B05:00&fallback_player=1&ga_referrer=&lang=en<WHX9HM>KUHGM[!%2b!]</WHX9HM>&last_second_watched=0&pstate=1b-1--1_1_0_0;2b_-1--1_1_0_0;3_-1-1_1_-1_0_0;&seconds_watched=0&_=1541883415937 HTTP/1.1 Referer: https://www.khanacademy.org/ Cookie: fkey=1.0_pEwSOQECgpFQnw==_1541883878; gae_b_id=; ka_session=b3J0F_xS8J97gKpoOxtWuf1f2zRsV0VSy7VUdpZH:1541883942:1541884130:1:; _gcl_au=1.1.623292152.1541883394; KAID=YWc1emZtdG9ZVzR0WVdOaFpHVnRlWElyQ3hJSVZYTmxja1JoZEdFaUhXdGhhV1JmTlRNeE5UZzBNall3TURVd01qZ3dOelV5TXpBeU1UUTBEQQoyMDE4MzE0MjEwNDM4LjM1ODc2NwowCgozNGUyODY2NzRiMDg2YjJlODg4MmU0MGMzNWQ0YzZiZGE5MjNmNjQxMDA5ZmU3N2Q4NTQ5MjIwZTdhNGYxZmNl; ki_t=1541883407036%3B1541883407036%3B1541883888321%3B1%3B9; ki_r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acunetix-referrer.com%2Fjavascript%3AdomxssExecutionSink(0%2C%22'%5C%22%3E%3Cxsstag%3E()refdxss%22); ki_s=131508%3A0.0.0.0.0%3B154853%3A0.0.0.0.0; useFallbackPlayer=1; KAID_PH=YWc1emZtdG9ZVzR0WVdOaFpHVnRlWElyQ3hJSVZYTmxja1JoZEdFaUhXdGhhV1JmTlRNeE5UZzBNall3TURVd01qZ3dOelV5TXpBeU1UUTBEQQoyMDE4MzE0MjA1NjU2LjU2NjA5CjAKCjQ1NzhjOTEyYmNhNDgwNDk1NzljMTNjMmYxYjU2NDM2YjIzMTBiMzkyZjZkODBjNzdmYjlkOWFlMmJjYzc2ZTI=; LIS=es,en; BizoID=92aa3edd-c454-4fbe-a10a-d2e3da70a6b7; lang=v=2&lang=en-us; lidc="b=SGST05:g=8:u=1:i=1541883450:t=1541969850:s=AQGK30fWxynJjV3aKyQbLaewIhKVtmEF"; UserMatchHistory=AQKZ8VKa9hggAQAAAWb_alQG0mseUCutYAJQQMZVWtlj-CNMZMwIs0rvBTIy4GwYqzmMHIdYTVo; bcookie="v=2&19f6e6cd-63b3-4fbf-8a7c-69515f373799"; bscookie="v=1&20181110205732ab3b1160-2440-4838-87a2-85dfb09161c5AQHfmegG3VBLxpJV8KnGUsa6PwygpigK"; 1P_JAR=2018-11-10-21; NID=146=j8ucCJsO9VUtiEokZ3og0Txgo75kVnjxpVsUEGlEPlWcS2d8FcfQPSoxjHhGztQLUEI8zQgVyTr3PyoY90Wc3qpqGJS6MC9jqMhNqFtvBxY9ROZQiUOC-a2C6LIcyjmWaPmCbbI7yoklfZw4D4wYAXx-8bMSQOkYAOeGJDe71DA; growth_teacher_content_upsell_dismissed=1; LIS=es,en Host: www.khanacademy.org Connection: Keep-alive Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.21 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.21 Accept: /

Impact

Malicious users may inject JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, HTML or Flash into a vulnerable application to fool a user in order to gather data from them. An attacker can steal the session cookie and take over the account, impersonating the user. It is also possible to modify the content of the page presented to the user.

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