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Re: XSS on Yahoo Mail

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance James)
Mon Nov 28 14:55:33 2005

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:50:15 -0800
From: Lance James <lancej@securescience.net>
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To: alireza hassani <trueend5@yahoo.com>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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alireza hassani wrote:

>--- Will Wesley <willwesleyccna@yahoo.de> wrote:
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>>Anyway, a solution is really quite simple.
>>Allow users to disable HTML in their email, or why
>>    
>>
>not by >default? 
>
>Don't you think this is not a real solution?
>User must be safe to use any option and also full
>performances.
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>

This HTML stuff should be allowed, but controlled - similar to on blogs.
Unfortunately I have found very bad hole in the compose mail section of
yahoo when HTML is on, but that just means that they should filter
better for HTML features.

>Alireza Hassani (http://www.kapda.ir)
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>__________________________________ 
>Yahoo! Music Unlimited 
>Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. 
>http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/
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