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The dangers of PDF documents



DATE: 03 Jan 2007

SOURCE: Gnucitizen

URL: http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog...

Editor's Summary: It seems that PDF documents can execute JavaScript code for no apparent reason. In fact, the attacker doesn't need to have write access to the specified PDF document. To get an XSS vector working, you just need to have a PDF file hosted on the target. FULL STORY


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