{"id":292,"date":"2007-06-12T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=292"},"modified":"2007-06-12T16:59:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T21:59:41","slug":"amazingly-clever-yet-scary-ebay-scam-using-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/amazingly-clever-yet-scary-ebay-scam-using-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazingly clever yet scary ebay scam using javascript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/ebay-scam-1.thumbnail.png\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-292];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/ebay-scam-1.thumbnail.png','popup','width=500,height=209,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/ebay-scam-1.thumbnail-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"239\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ebay Scam 1.Thumbnail\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:0pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>So I would assume to avoid this- shift-refresh?-MC<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigleap.com\/blog\/bizarre\/amazingly-clever-yet-scary-ebay-scam-using-javascript\/\" >Amazingly clever yet scary ebay scam using javascript<\/a>:<br \/>\nThe javascript not only changes the sellers rating, it also points the sellers link to an actual seller with that rating. Amazingly, Ebay allows javascript to be embedded into templates thus allowing pages to be manipulated in this way. I have seen the offending piece of code which I was going to post but decided against for obvious reasons. I am astounded to think that there are no checks in place to prevent this from happening.<\/p>\n<p>Actual Ebay Item<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I would assume to avoid this- shift-refresh?-MC Amazingly clever yet scary ebay scam using javascript: The javascript not only changes the sellers rating, it also points the sellers link to an actual seller with that rating. Amazingly, Ebay allows javascript to be embedded into templates thus allowing pages to be manipulated in this way. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/amazingly-clever-yet-scary-ebay-scam-using-javascript\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazingly clever yet scary ebay scam using javascript<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-4I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}