HTML Purifier is a awesome PHP filter library designed to secure and add standard compliance to HTML. In websites including user generated content, this library allow to have mutlimedia pages including image, text formating and YouTube videos in a secure and SEO proof way thanks to rich text editors like Tiny MCE or FCK Editor…
Tag: Security
MessengerFX’s security problem corrected
Some times ago I found a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in MessengerFX, a popular web-based Windows Live Messenger client. Friday I received from the team saying that the problem is now corrected: Hi Kevin, First of all i want to thank you for your warn. We fixed that problem and now its working correctly. […]…
MessengerFX allows your contacts to take control over your WLM
I have paste some HTML code to a Edouard using MessengerFX, a popular web Windows Live Messenger client based on AJAX, and – surprise, the code has been interpreted. Oh?! A XSS vulnerability ? Yes, and such a big one! Every software’s feature is available through Javascript. Any contact of a MessengerFX user can crash his browser, and furthermore…