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Date: 1st February 2007
Risk: Informational

Google has patched a cross site scripting flaw that could permit cross site scripting in Google documents and spreadsheets.

Philipp Lenssen, author of Google Blogoscoped, said recently that the flaw is closely associated to another Google flaw, but declined to go into detail: "This particular security hole is connected to an update to a specific Google service which doesn't correctly defend against HTML injections, leading to the ability to JavaScript-write something which passes cookie data to an external source. I won't reveal the details here for now and rather give Google time to fix this bug - Haochi of Googlified.com alerted their security team 7 hours ago."

More information about the flaws is available on Google Blogoscoped at:

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-01-16-n24.html

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