Just a quick alert about an email from Google warning of vulnerabilities in some DoubleClick publishers. This has been sent to all website owners who use DoubleClick in any form.<\/p>\n
However this will ONLY affect website owners who use DoubleClick as a stand alone service to display adverts. It does not affect website owners who use Google AdSense to display adverts and have enabled the additional options to also use DoubleClick as a method of advertising in the allowed advertisers section of your Google AdSense settings page.<\/p>\n
The email reads:<\/p>\n
Dear Customer,
\nWe\u2019ve identified certain vendor files that may contain XSS vulnerabilities which could pose a security risk. Please check if you are hosting these files and remove them with the help of your webmaster. These are the currently identified third-party vendor files:<\/p>\n
1. adform\/IFrameManager.html<\/p>\n
2. admotion\/afa-iframe.htm<\/p>\n
3. bonzai\/bonzaiBuster.html<\/p>\n
4. exponential\/buster.html<\/p>\n
5. eyeblaster\/addineyeV2.html<\/p>\n
6. eyewonder\/interim.html<\/p>\n
7. flashtalking\/ftlocal.html<\/p>\n
8. ipinyou\/py_buster.html<\/p>\n
9. jivox\/jivoxibuster.html<\/p>\n
10. mediaplex\/mojofb_v9.html<\/p>\n
11. mixpo\/framebust.html<\/p>\n
12. predicta\/predicta_bf.html<\/p>\n
13. rockabox\/rockabox_buster.html<\/p>\n
14. liquidus\/iframeX.htm<\/p>\n
15. controbox\/iframebuster.html<\/p>\n
16. spongecell\/spongecell-spongecellbuster.html<\/p>\n
17. unicast\/unicastIFD.html<\/p>\n
18. adrime\/adrime_burst.2.0.0.htm<\/p>\n
19. revjet\/revjet_buster.html<\/p>\n
20. kpsule\/iframebuster.html<\/p>\n
We have disabled these vendors where possible for all DoubleClick for Publishers and DoubleClick Ad Exchange customers. However, any of the mentioned files hosted on your site may still pose a risk and should be taken down. We will notify you as we learn more.<\/p>\n
For more information please refer to this Help Center article.<\/p>\n
Regards,<\/p>\n
The DoubleClick for Publishers and DoubleClick Ad Exchange Teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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