| Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Injection |
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Overview Cascading style injection may occcur when user or attacker controlled input is later incorporated without being encoded into the web server response with a style attribute. In other words, the attacker can send input which later is incorporated into the web page the user receives. Discovery Methodology Inject all available parameters of the web page with a searchable string such as the word "CANARY" along with characters generally useful in writing HTML, JavaScript or other code. Search the response carefully noting any location where the test string appears unencoded in a style attribute. These locations may allow Cascading style injection. Hint: An example injection might be <CANARY={}""()'';#$--/>1. Adding a sequencial integer to the test input can help determine which of the inputs parameters resulted in the response string found. Exploitation Determine the prefix and suffix needed to make the injected code "fit" syntatically then add a payload between. Inject the exploit. Example Example Target:<body style="color:#{dynamic input}"> Possible Solution:style="<body color:#""><H1>HELLO WORLD</H1>< anything=""> Videos Warning: Could not reach YouTube via network connection. Failed to embed video. Click here to watch Injecting a Cross Site Script via Cascading Stylesheet Context |