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Optional escape some characters combinations to prevent XSS in old browsers #35

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hax opened this issue Aug 15, 2014 · 0 comments
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hax commented Aug 15, 2014

Older versions of Internet Explorer can be tricked into interpreting the page as UTF-7. This can be used for a cross-site scripting attack as the < and > marks can be encoded as +ADw- and +AD4- in UTF-7, which most validators let through as simple text.

See https://code.google.com/p/doctype-mirror/wiki/ArticleUtf7 for more info.

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