Apple Reportedly Patches XSS Vulnerability on iCloud's Website

In a blog post shared by ZDNet, security researcher Vishal Bharad claims that he found a bug that would have allowed a hacker to inject a virus or malicious script onto Apple's ‌iCloud‌ website.

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According to Bharad, the vulnerability consisted of creating a Pages or Keynote document on the ‌iCloud‌ website with the name field containing the XSS payload. Sharing the document with another user, creating a change, saving, and then clicking "Browse All Versions" under Settings would have triggered the XSS payload.

Given the vulnerability revolved around the ‌iCloud‌ website, it's not linked to a recent software update and has reportedly been patched by Apple server-side. Bharad says he submitted the issue to Apple on August 7, 2020, and received a $5,000 bounty on October 9, 2020. We've reached out to Apple for comment and we'll update if we hear back.

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Top Rated Comments

Razorpit Avatar
59 months ago
Good thing no one ever shares a Pages or Keynote document on iCloud. Could have been catastrophic! ?
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
locovaca Avatar
59 months ago

I joke about their usage in the real world, but I use Pages and Numbers regularly. It just feels like I'm the only one.
I use them exclusively. They work fine for local content creation and I just export to doc/excel when I need to share.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
wfulle Avatar
59 months ago

Good thing no one ever shares a Pages or Keynote document on iCloud. Could have been catastrophic! ?
Maybe it would of been fixed faster if Apple made pages a real competitor to Docs and Word
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Razorpit Avatar
59 months ago

Maybe it would of been fixed faster if Apple made pages a real competitor to Docs and Word
I joke about their usage in the real world, but I use Pages and Numbers regularly. It just feels like I'm the only one.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sdz Avatar
59 months ago

Good thing no one ever shares a Pages or Keynote document on iCloud. Could have been catastrophic! ?
Fantastically analyzed.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
wfulle Avatar
59 months ago

I joke about their usage in the real world, but I use Pages and Numbers regularly. It just feels like I'm the only one.
I might actually try them again because I really do like the simplicity and maybe its gotten better.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)