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160 German tax office sites vulnerable to XSS

1 min read Patrik Grobshäuser Archive

We found 160 websites belonging to German tax offices (Finanzämter) vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting. We passed the information to the German IT news site heise.de, which forwarded it to CERT-Bund, the German government Computer Emergency Response Team.

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Coverage: heise.de, “Viele Finanzämter mit unsicheren Websites” (German)

The heise.de security news article headlined “Viele Finanzämter mit unsicheren Websites” reporting the cross-site scripting flaws