Weather Channel forecast: Bleak, with prolonged XSS

  • 1 December 2014
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A billion visitors exposed to scripting storm

By Darren Pauli, 1 Dec 2014  The Weather Channel has dammed a downpour of cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities that soaked three quarters of links on the popular site, security bod Wang Jin says.
The website received a tsunami of traffic with more than a billion unique visitors checking in each month according to Drupal which noted it was the "highest trafficked Drupal site in existence".
 Wang Jin, a doctoral student at Nanyang Technological University, reported the poor conditions to the site administrators who closed the basic holes affecting tens of thousands of links late November.
 
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