NDSS2022

Probe the Proto: Measuring Client-Side Prototype Pollution Vulnerabilities of One Million Real-world Websites

Zifeng Kang, Song Li, Yinzhi Cao

Abstract

zero-day, exploitable prototype pollution vulnerabilities. We verify that 48 vulnerabilities further lead to XSS, 736 to cookie manipulations, and 830 to URL manipulations. We reported all the findings to website maintainers and so far 185 vulnerable websites have already been patched.