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Python CGI Documentation Cross Site Scripting

Python CGI Documentation Cross Site Scripting
Posted Mar 22, 2023
Authored by Georgi Guninski

The documentation for the python CGI module suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.

tags | exploit, cgi, xss, python
SHA-256 | 12070a3cded8397a9c1036c6ffa17c97d5ef5a584b91e3216867995ff23654e8

Python CGI Documentation Cross Site Scripting

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Is there low hanging fruit for the following observation?

The documentation of the python cgi module is vulnerable to XSS
(cross site scripting)

https://docs.python.org/3/library/cgi.html

```
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
print("<p>name:", form["name"].value)
print("<p>addr:", form["addr"].value)
```

First result on google for "tutorial python cgi"
is https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_cgi_programming.htm

And it is almost the same as the python doc.

I verified that setting ```name=<script>alert(document.domain)</script>```
will trigger dialog, demonstrating javascript is executed
on the cgi host.

I would expect that devs who read the docs or tutorials will write
vulnerable cgis.
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