Hackers of India

Cross Site Port Attack (XSPA)

By  Riyaz Walikar  on 07 Nov 2012

Abstract

Recognized as Web Hacking Top 10 Techniques in the year 2012

From : https://ibreak.software/2012/11/cross-site-port-attacks-xspa-part-1/

Cross Site Port Attack (XSPA) is a vulnerability that allows attackers to fetch status of TCP ports (and grab service banners) over the Internet or internal systems by abusing a feature in web applications that makes HTTP requests using attacker supplied URLs.