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MailChimp has been around since 2001. We started as a side project funded by various web-development jobs. Now we send more than 600 million emails a day. We love seeing businesses start small, fund themselves with paying projects, and build up a strong API, so that's how we run MailChimp. We create products and features that empower our customers to grow."
The vulnerability exists at “http://login.mailchimp.com/?” page with “referrer” parameter, e.g.
http://login.mailchimp.com/?referrer=http://google.com [1]
http://login.mailchimp.com/?referrer=http://google.com [1]
When a user clicks the URL ([1]) before login, the MailChimp “login page” appears. The user needs to enter his/her username and password. When this is done, the user could be redirected to a webpage different from MailChimp.
Tests were performed on Microsoft IE (9 9.0.8112.16421) of Windows 8, Mozilla Firefox (37.0.2) & Google Chromium 42.0.2311 (64-bit) of Ubuntu (14.04.2)，and Apple Safari 6.1.6 of Mac OS X v10.9 Mavericks.
(1) Use the following tests to illustrate the scenario painted above.
The redirected webpage address is “http://www.tetraph.com/essayjeans/”. We can suppose that this webpage is malicious.
Reporter:
Wang Jing, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. (@justqdjing)
http://www.tetraph.com/wangjing/
http://www.tetraph.com/wangjing/
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/vigilantes-testing-security-it-systems
ReplyDeleteCall them cybersecurity vigilantes if you will, or “white hats” — as they are known in the hacking world.
Mr Wang Jing and Mr Zhao Hainan are part of a growing group of individuals who are taking it upon themselves to test the security of information systems in organisations and report security flaws.