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Companies House has blocked someone who registered a new biz with a name that contained the right characters arranged in the right order to trigger a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against users of the service’s API.<\/p>\n

The company in question, registered number 12956509, was originally signed up with the UK’s official company registrar under the name:<\/p>\n

 \">< SCRIPT SRC[=]HTTPS[:]\/\/MJT.XSS.HT> LTD\n<\/pre>\n
Its name didn’t contain the square brackets, meaning anyone reading company names off the Companies House API<\/a> would potentially run a script from the web address above.<\/p>\n
A person using the username michaeltandy on the Companies House developer forum later posted<\/a>: “I had assumed I wouldn’t be the first person to use < and > (they are, after all, both explicitly whitelisted as legal characters) and that 99 per cent of systems would already be escaping them… I would just get a company with a playful name that would elicit a knowing chuckle from the kind of people we’d be doing business with!”<\/p>\n
The poster continued: “Once it turned out there were non-trivial problems, and that fact became more widely publicised, we can’t expect every consumer of data to do a full XSS audit in only a few days.”<\/p>\n
Although whoever registered the company seems to have had non-hostile intentions \u2013 xss.ht is a domain owned by the XSS Hunter service, as explained on its main website<\/a> \u2013 the vulnerability it exposes is not unique.<\/p>\n
Such tomfoolery has been carried out in the past, aided by a legal requirement<\/a> that certain punctuation marks are available for companies to use in their names. Thus was born “; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”;– LTD<\/a>” and “SAFDASD & SFSAF \\’ SFDAASF\\” LTD<\/a>“, both of which were exploiting the availability of punctuation marks to put commands into the company name field.<\/p>\n
Tech lawyer Neil Brown of decoded.legal told The Register<\/i>: “This is symbolic \u2013 if one might excuse the pun \u2013 of a regime which considers individual characters in isolation, and not the effect of the combination of those characters.” He explained that while section 53 of the Companies Act 2000<\/a> does stop people from registering companies with “offensive” names or names that were a criminal offence to publish, it’s not clear whether that is enough to stop people registering database commands as company names.<\/p>\n
“Would using an XSS attack constitute an offence? Even with the state of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, that would be a stretch too far. Is it offensive? I don’t think so, but then I’m not the Secretary of State,” opined Brown, who also pointed out yet another crappy company name<\/a>.<\/p>\n
As for lessons to be drawn from this, Brown wondered if simply advising people to sanitise inputs from official systems was “too dull” for El Reg<\/i>. We happen to agree but it’s also the sort of common-sense advice someone, somewhere, might actually benefit from. The BBC Bitesize guide to input sanitisation (don’t laugh, we all started somewhere) can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
A Companies House spokesman told The Register<\/i>: “A company was registered using characters that could have presented a security risk to a limited number of our customers, if published on unprotected external websites. We have taken immediate steps to mitigate this risk.”<\/p>\n
He added: “We are confident that Companies House services remain secure.”<\/p>\n
And indeed Companies House is secure: company number 12956509 is now called<\/a> “THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD”. \u00ae<\/p>\n
 Bootnotes<\/span>
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Drop Table Companies Ltd (add the necessary script marks at your leisure) was a practical joke by tech bod Sam Pizzey, who blogged about it at the time<\/a>. He wrote: “The company name is a bit of hacker sleight-of-hand… or as some astute people have put it, it’s ‘wrong’. Of course it’s wrong \u2013 I’m not a total<\/i> arsehole!”<\/p>\n
Multiple people also registered Openreach Ltd<\/a> over the years until BT woke up and registered the company name itself.<\/p>\n
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And the ‘acceptable company name’ charset is hardcoded… in legislation Companies House has blocked someone who registered a new biz with a name that contained the right characters arranged in the right order to trigger a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against users of the service’s API.\u2026 READ MORE HERE…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy, yes, you can register an XSS attack as a UK company name. How do we know that? 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