Sunday 3 February 2013

Two XSS Vulnerabilities found in Mediafire Site by THER00tC0de

Vulnerability in Mediafire :

An Security Researches with handle name " TheR00tC0de" has found two Cross Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities in the most famous file hosting website "Mediafire"

In an email Sent to some sites, the researcher provided the two vulnerable links that executes the code injected by hacker. 

XSS Vulnerability in Mediafire

The researcher claimed that he sent notification about the vulnerability to Mediafire Team and waiting for their response.  The researcher asked the site owners not to publish the vulnerable link.  

And many have confirmed those vulnerabilities . But this type of vulnerability can be used only in social engineering attacks ,So it cannot be mostly used to deface large sites like Mediafire,So we hope our files are safe ;)

Recently, a security researcher - Mahadev Subedi identified a XSS vulnerability in the File Uploading service of Mediafire .

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