LocalStorage Blues

Lyrics

Yeah.
You left the keys where the kids play.
Yeah.
We trusted a box.
It lied.
Listen.

You, you left the keys in the cookie jar, wired to the net
Plaintext on the shelf, like a threat you forget
Click log out - it's still living in dust and regret
Singing LocalStorage blues... Welcome to the threat

Remember me? Nah, remember this - the PIN on display
A ticket to the kingdom, just sitting in play
One XSS line and our secrets betray
We patch tomorrow? Nah - patch today.

I crawled through the DOM like a ghost in the chrome
Found a laundry list of sins they call "home"
Username, pincode, password - parade in a row
Like a party for hackers, they threw us the show

Logout a liar, it winked and it stayed
Cleared the ticket, but the rest? Nah - they played
"Husk mig" a monster, it's hoarding the keys
Permanent memory, like gum on the knees

SSO ticket in clear - a passport for thieves
Give me one little exploit and watch the sleeves leave
CSP missing, headers half-baked
Public Wi-Fi's a puppet - credentials get faked

GDPR knocking, but the door's been ripped
We counting the cost while the logs get skipped
I'm angry but sad - it's a tragic cartoon
We left the safe open and hummed the same tune

[Chorus]

You left the keys in the cookie jar, wired to the net
Plaintext on the shelf, like a threat you forget
Click log out - it's still living in dust and regret
We singing LocalStorage blues... Welcome to the threat

Remember me? Nah, remember this - the PIN on display
A ticket to the kingdom, just sitting in play
One XSS line and our secrets betray
We patch tomorrow? Nah - patch today.

Exploitability high, complexity low
Attack from the network - they already know
No privileges needed, no user to trick
One malicious script and your stack gets picked

I picture the boardroom, champagne gone sour
Lawyers with clipboards, come the midnight hour
"Was it reckless?" they say - no, it's negligence dressed
Security's sleeping, so the zebras get stressed

I spit punchlines with deadlines, the humor a mask
Under the laughs is the job that we didn't do fast
We can swap storage for cookies - HttpOnly, sealed
Session on the server, that's how trust is healed

But the code is a fossil, deployments still run
So I rap you a warning before the damage is done
Imagine a kid on a shared machine
Types in a URL, finds someone's dream

No, this ain't theory - it's a half-built crime
We sell access cheap while we bill them in time
Patch it. Lock it. Don't let it breathe.
Make the logout honest - make it leave.

[Chorus]

You left the keys in the cookie jar, wired to the net
Plaintext on the shelf, like a threat you forget
Click log out - it's still living in dust and regret
We singing LocalStorage blues... Welcome to the threat

Remember me? Nah, remember this - the PIN on display
A ticket to the kingdom, just sitting in play
One XSS line and our secrets betray
We patch tomorrow? Nah - patch today.

[Outro]

(HAA!)
They left the keys where the kids play.
We trusted a box...
...that lied.
Patch today.

The vulnerabilities

This song catalogs real security flaws that tests should catch:

• Plaintext credentials in localStorage - username, PIN, password stored without encryption
• Broken logout - cleared SSO ticket but left all other sensitive data
• "Remember me" storing PINs - permanent client-side storage of authentication secrets
• XSS-exploitable session tokens - SSO tickets in localStorage instead of HttpOnly cookies
• Missing CSP headers - no Content Security Policy to prevent injection attacks
• GDPR violations - sensitive data persisted without consent or proper deletion

Every one of these should have been caught by security tests before deployment. They weren't exotic attacks - they were "inspect element, copy token, win" vulnerabilities.