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| author | Rafael França <rafaelmfranca@gmail.com> | 2018-04-12 00:23:12 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-04-12 00:23:12 -0400 |
| commit | 2a54f9963eae0592f348b37996e3b9eef85b5b63 (patch) | |
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Merge pull request #32538 from 284km/fix_guides_security_link
Fix MySpace Samy worm link [ci skip]
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diff --git a/guides/source/security.md b/guides/source/security.md index ffd7e66fc5..06c24670de 100644 --- a/guides/source/security.md +++ b/guides/source/security.md @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ In December 2006, 34,000 actual user names and passwords were stolen in a [MySpa INFO: _CSS Injection is actually JavaScript injection, because some browsers (IE, some versions of Safari and others) allow JavaScript in CSS. Think twice about allowing custom CSS in your web application._ -CSS Injection is explained best by the well-known [MySpace Samy worm](https://samy.pl/popular/tech.html). This worm automatically sent a friend request to Samy (the attacker) simply by visiting his profile. Within several hours he had over 1 million friend requests, which created so much traffic that MySpace went offline. The following is a technical explanation of that worm. +CSS Injection is explained best by the well-known [MySpace Samy worm](https://samy.pl/myspace/tech.html). This worm automatically sent a friend request to Samy (the attacker) simply by visiting his profile. Within several hours he had over 1 million friend requests, which created so much traffic that MySpace went offline. The following is a technical explanation of that worm. MySpace blocked many tags, but allowed CSS. So the worm's author put JavaScript into CSS like this: |