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I had some free time today and after about 10 minutes of poking around AOL’s web services, I came to the conclusion that their developers have no concept of security. Every AOL domain I looked at had multiple XSS holes on basically every page. They ranged from random subdomains like:

http://autos.aol.com/
http://finance.aol.com/

To more serious domains like:

http://webmail.aol.com/ (need to be logged in)
https://account.login.aol.com/

To the really bad:

https://my.screenname.aol.com/

Access to all of AOL’s web services requires only 2 cookies, SNS_AA from aol.com, and SNS_SKWAT from screenname.aol.com. The only positive thing I ran into is the fact they require you to answer a security question to access account management functions.

Oh! I almost forgot, they also made a feeble attempt at blocking a select number of javascript functions and attributes. For example, this is blocked:

alert(document.cookie)

But this isn’t:

x=document;alert(x.cookie);

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