[TOOL] XSS Tunneling White Paper and Tool

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XSS Tunneling White Paper and Tool
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SUMMARY



DETAILS

XSS Tunneling is the tunneling of HTTP traffic through an opened XSS
Channel. Thus any application with HTTP proxy support can tunnel its
traffic through an XSS Channel (a channel opened by a tool like XSS
Shell).

White paper is explaining XSS Tunneling, benefits, real worlds examples
and basic usage of XSS Tunnel (a local HTTP proxy for tunneling) tool.

XSS Tunneling Paper:
<http://www.portcullis-security.com/uplds/whitepapers/XSSTunnelling.pdf>
http://www.portcullis-security.com/uplds/whitepapers/XSSTunnelling.pdf

A Short Demonstration Video:
<http://ferruh.mavituna.com/blogs/xsstunnelling-video.zip>
http://ferruh.mavituna.com/blogs/xsstunnelling-video.zip

Video shows to exploit a permanent XSS in wordpress and bypass Basic Auth
on the fly by XSS Tunnel.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:ferruh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Ferruh
Mavituna.
The original article can be found at:
<http://www.portcullis-security.com/16.php>
http://www.portcullis-security.com/16.php



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