From: Stephen de Vries (stephen.devriesdcode.net)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 08:31:49 CDT

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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Thomas Chiverton wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 11:23 am, Stephen de Vries wrote:
> > Any XSS in the page, will only have access to the attackers token - which
> > is useless from an attack point of view.
>
> But the attackers session will now be running in the victims browser, where it
> can steal his cookies, email or whatever.

No, he can steal his own cookie with his own session ID and his own email.
How can he steal anything from the victim, if the victim is running the
attackers' session?

Stephen

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