Re: display SOLR Query in web page

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Della Bitta
It's not great to leak internal implementation details of your application out like this, and it may be that someone more skilled at exploiting things like this could find one. Michael Della Bitta Appinions | 18 East 41st St., Suite 1806 | New York

Re: display SOLR Query in web page

2012-08-22 Thread Bernd Fehling
I haven't spent time in trying anything, just entered a query and recognized that it showed up in the page source view. If they really escape everything it is not that dangerous? Actually I don't want to try anything with their page, they might not have any humor ;-) Bernd Am 22.08.2012 15:41,

Re: display SOLR Query in web page

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Della Bitta
Actually, I'm having a little trouble coming up with a proof-of-concept exploit for this... it doesn't seem like Solr is exposed directly, and it does seem like it's escaping submitted content before redisplaying it on the page. I'm not crazy about leaking the raw query string into the HTML, but i

Re: display SOLR Query in web page

2012-08-22 Thread Michael Della Bitta
Ouch, not to mention the potential for XSS. I'll see if I can get in touch with someone. Michael Della Bitta Appinions | 18 East 41st St., Suite 1806 | New York, NY 10017 www.appinions.com Where Influence Isn’t a Game On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:4

display SOLR Query in web page

2012-08-22 Thread Bernd Fehling
Now this is very scary, while searching for "solr direct access per docid" I got a hit from US Homeland Security Digital Library. Interested in what they have to tell me about my search I clicked on the link to the page. First the page had nothing unusual about it, but why I get the hit? http://