I got some spam in the comment fields of my blog that raised my interest.
Some sample how they looked like:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/search/search.php?q=some+advertising%3Cscript%3Eparent%2elocation%2ereplace%28%22http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle%2ede22%29%3C%2Fscript%3E
I've replaced the forwarding URL and the advertising words (cause I don't want to raise interest on spammers pages). I got several similar spam comments the following days all with the same scheme. Using a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability, mostly on pages that might raise trust to forward to a medical selling page.
This is probably a good reason why XSS should be fixed, no matter what attack vectors there are. It can always be used by spammers to use your pages fame / authority to advertise their services. Same goes for redirectors or frame injections. Some where already reported at some public place (for the above see
here). I've re-reported them all, but got just one reply by a webmaster who fixed it. True reality on the internet today, even webmasters of famous public organizations don't seem to care about internet security.
For the record, the others:
http://adventisthealth.org/utilities/search.asp?Yider=<script>alert(1)</script>
http://www.loc.gov/rr/ElectronicResources/search.php?search_term=<script>alert(1)</script>
And thanks to
iconfactory, they fixed
their XSS.