Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

Relative Path Overwrite

Relative Path Overwrite (RPO) is a new attack vector discovered by Gareth Heyes, a renowned web application researcher. RPO exploits the way browsers interpret relative paths while importing CSS files into a document, hence this attack is also referred to as Path Relative Stylesheet Import (PRSSI). If you're not aware of relative and absolute path URL CSS import, then let's have a quick look at:

Relative path import:

<link href="resource/rpo.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

Absolute path import:

<link href="https://sandbox.prakharprasd.com /resource/rpo.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

Here, the rpo.css file contains the following:

h1 {
    font-family: monospace;
    color: white;
    font-size: 50px;

}
body {
 background-color: ...