Sensitive Cookie Without 'HttpOnly' Flag in flatpressblog/flatpress

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Reported on

Sep 2nd 2021


✍️ Description

HTTPOnly attribute is not set for session cookies in the application.

🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept

Cookie Without HTTPOnly Attribute

💥 Impact

When a cookie doesn’t have an HttpOnly flag, it can be accessed through JavaScript, which means that an XSS could lead to cookies being stolen. These include session cookies that can make it easier to achieve account/session takeover.

We have contacted a member of the flatpressblog/flatpress team and are waiting to hear back 2 years ago
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We have sent a third and final follow up to the flatpressblog/flatpress team. This report is now considered stale. 2 years ago
flatpressblog/flatpress maintainer gave praise a year ago
will be fixed, thanks for reporting!
The researcher's credibility has slightly increased as a result of the maintainer's thanks: +1
flatpressblog/flatpress maintainer validated this vulnerability a year ago
Melbin Mathew Antony has been awarded the disclosure bounty
The fix bounty is now up for grabs
The researcher's credibility has increased: +7
flatpressblog/flatpress maintainer marked this as fixed in 1.3 with commit 34fb2f a year ago
The fix bounty has been dropped
This vulnerability will not receive a CVE
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