Cross your fingers and click

UH!Mustaca!HTML

  30 June 2006

Description

Making what looks like a valid link to PayPal turn into a link to a phishing site using a FORM and a cleverly constructed INPUT tag.

Submitted by Sorin Mustaca.

Example

<FORM action=http://201.117.14.43:8090/xxev/cmd_run/index.php?>
<p><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run">
<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana">
<INPUT style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0pt;
BORDER-TOP: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT: 0pt; CURSOR:
hand; COLOR: blue; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent;
TEXT-DECORATION: underline" type=submit
value=https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run>
</font></a></p></form>

Poll

Do you use the same password(s) across multiple websites?
I use the same password for all sites
I have a number of passwords but use the same for some sites
I use a different password for each site
I don't sign up to any sites that require a password

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