WHID 2008-20: XSS Worm At Justin.tv Affects 2525 Profiles

Attack Information
WHID ID: 
2008-20
Date Occured: 
16 Jul 2008
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Target Information
Attacked Entity Field: 
Web 2.0

A proof of concept XSS worm crawled justin.tv, a popular lifecasting platform. The warm succeeded in planting a self replicating code on 2525 accounts in less than 24 hours before the vulnerability was fixed.

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