Javascript cookies and changing their value

Sometimes while browsing, its possible you've stumbled upon a restricted area with the common message

"You aren't authorized to see this page".

Well chances are they use your cookies to check whether you are/aren't authorized to see the restricted page.

Well there's 2 javascripts so that we can work around it.

First in your URL type javascript:alert(document.cookie);
This will bring up a list of all the cookies that are running on the site.
Chances are you'll find a cookie similar to "authorization=no"

Now to change this we simply need one more javascript injection.
Simply type javascript.action(document.cookie="name=value");
where name is the cookie name you're trying to change and value is the value you are changing to.
So for example if my cookie was "level_authorization=no" my script would be
javascript.action(document.cookie="level_authorization=no");

The site will pop up a cookie change value box, to inform you that the change has been made.
After this you'll be able to view the content that you weren't able to before.

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