Simon Willison’s Weblog

11th January 2007 - Link Blog

The Adobe PDF XSS Vulnerability. If you host a PDF file anywhere on your site, you’re vulnerable to an XSS attack due to a bug in Acrobat Reader versions below 8. The fix is to serve PDFs as application/octet-stream to avoid them being displayed inline.

Posted 11th January 2007 at 4:23 pm

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