XSS vulnerability on the SYRIZA official page

Yes XSS on official of the ruling party. After our announcement of the new feature Secleaks offered by SecNews.gr, we received one worth publishing. The sender of the vulnerability (as you will see in the first image) is Nyo from the Greek Hacking Scene (GHS) group.

We also have the vulnerability links available to any interested manager who wants to resolve the issue.

See the images that show the vulnerability:

XSS

For those who do not know:

By the term Cross-site scripting or XSS we refer to the exploitation of various vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities) of computer systems by introducing HTML or Javascript on a site. Someone s user, could inject code into a website, through an input text for example, which since it would not be filtered by the website properly, could cause problems for the administrator or visitor of the target website.

Example:

http://www.example.com/index.html?name=

The malicious user could succeed:

Theft of passwords / accounts etc of personal data
Change website settings
Theft of cookies
Fake (via, e.g., a link)

Vulnerability refers to the weakness of the system that the site supports to filter and reject any harmful inputs.

SecNews.gr remains at the disposal of any interested party to solve the problem.

Definition of XSS from Wikipedia.

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