Re:XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation
by michaelt on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:25AM
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Some people might expect Google to detect and block black hat SEO techniques? And see this behaviour as Google erroneously miscounting links to pages?
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Re:XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation
by luckylion on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:30PM
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The links won't really matter though, because they don't have value. You need somebody to link to the XSS'd URL for the links to help you with SEO, preferably linking to it from the legit page - which will generally not happen, and if you can make it happen, you don't need this attack, you can just link to your page directly.