Over 1 Million websites are at risk of sensitive information leakage — XSS is dead. Long live XSS

Over 1 Million websites are at risk of sensitive information leakage — XSS is dead. Long live XSS

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IntroCross-site scripting (aka XSS) has rightfully claimed its place as one of the most popular web vulnerabilities. Since its first emergence, somewhere in the dark days of the internet, countless vulnerabilities have been found across websites everywhere. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that XSS has been consistently highlighted as ... Read More
Security Flaws within ChatGPT Ecosystem Allowed Access to Accounts On Third-Party Websites and Sensitive Data

Security Flaws within ChatGPT Ecosystem Allowed Access to Accounts On Third-Party Websites and Sensitive Data

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Salt Labs researchers identified generative AI ecosystems as a new interesting attack vector. vulnerabilities found during this research on ChatGPT ecosystem could have granted access to accounts of users, including GitHub repositories, including 0-click attacks.Intro ChatGPTUnless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, you’ve probably ... Read More
OAuth security gaps at Grammarly (now remediated)

Oh-Auth — Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts

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Hackers could take over millions of accounts on Grammarly, Vidio and Bukalapak. The issue was fixed but users at other websites could still be at risk.OAuth (Open Authorization) is one of the fastest adopted technologies in the AppSec domain. From its first introduction in 2006, as an attempt to introduce ... Read More
Salt Labs exposes a new vulnerability in popular OAuth framework, used in hundreds of online services

Salt Labs exposes a new vulnerability in popular OAuth framework, used in hundreds of online services

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This post is the second in a series describing OAuth implementation issues that put companies at risk. We create these posts to share rich technical details, drawn from real-world use cases, to educate the broader industry on the nature of these errors, their potential impact, and how to avoid them ... Read More
OAuth security gaps at Booking.com (now remediated)

Traveling with OAuth — Account Takeover on Booking.com

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OAuth (Open Authorization) is a modern, open authorization standard designed to allow cross-application access delegation — for example, allowing your application to read data from your Facebook profile. Combined with the proper extensions, OAuth can also be used for authentication — for example, to log into your application using Google ... Read More