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Misuse Of Macromedia Flash Ads ClickTAG Option May Lead To Privacy Breach

SecuriTeam | News Source
2003-04-16

A vulnerability discovered in Macromedia Flash ad user tracking field allows a remote user to perform Cross-Site-Scripting attacks and retrieve session information.

Macromedia flash supplies user-tracking field to swf (flash movies) ads:

"The clickTAG is the tracking code assigned by the ad serving network to an individual ad. The clickTAG allows the network to register where the ad was displayed when it was clicked on.

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