XSS or false alarm?

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BlackBox
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XSS or false alarm?

Post by BlackBox »

Hi there,

Searching for some specific subject with Google brought me to a link with the format http:// "something".appspot.com/"twitter account"

Running FF 3.6 with NoScript 1.9.9.50 results in a XSS warning for Google / appspot.com, situation :

1. Search for potential XSS links http://www.google.com/#hl=enl&source=hp ... om%2F&fp=1

2. Choose a link on the result page, like http://7920074.appspot.com/googlemaps

3. Use the result page,try to login to Twitter (enter here a fake user name and password) > result a XSS warning

What is happening here? Is appspot.com hijacked and acting like Twitter or is this a bug in NoScript?

Regards,

BlackBox the Netherlands.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
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