Leo has submitted his revelation on the Full Disclosure mailing list, which can be foundhere.

Vulnerability

The vulnerability is known as a universal cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw.

The XSS flaw can be exploited by attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy (SOP).

Critical Internet Explorer 11 vulnerability can be used to launch phishing attacks

Leo has made a website with the XSS flaw proof-of-concept exploit which can be accessedhere.

The website can popup a message which Leo has written just to show how critical the vulnerability is.

Ive done some testing with this one and, while there /are/ quirks, it most definitely works.

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It even bypasses standardHTTP-to-HTTPS restrictions.

It looks like, through this method, all viable XSS tactics are open!

Has this been reported to Microsoft outside (or within) this thread?

source: www.techworm.net