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Re: Security Advisory for ALL forum services with client-set images

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Paletta)
Thu Dec 23 15:33:05 2004

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:50:40 +0100
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James Bandara wrote/schrieb/scripsit:
>To block this I suggest you edit your service to only accept links that 
>end in image formats for images before the querystring.

That doesn't really help ─ the attacker can send a HTTP redirect from an 
innocent-looking URL.

-Stefan
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