HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a language used to created web pages.
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Cleartext password in HTML
Is there any problem with outputing a user's password to the HTML in an hidden field (see use case below before flaming xD)?
The use case is a registration form with two steps. The user fills in the ...
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Sharing Nmap scan results in a web page
Is there a tool that allow the sharing of nmap scan results ? I know nmap can produce XML and I can easily convert them in HTML.
I would like to know if there is a tool with more features. For ...
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how can you inject malicious code into an innocent-looking URL?
I am learning about XSS attacks. Wikipedia says that in a non-persistent attack an attacker may provide an innocent-looking URL that "points to a trusted site but actually has an XSS vector." What ...
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Is there a way to bypass Django's XSS escaping with “unicode”?
Django (the Python web framework) escapes output to prevent XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attacks. It replaces ', ", <, >, & with their HTML safe versions.
However this presentation on slide ...
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What possible use does an iFrame have for security?
I'm looking at code for an old login form I'm redesigning. It's a simple table with two input fields for username and password.
But just before the end </table> tag there's a blank iFrame which ...
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Stop code injections into page code
I started a topic HERE on the stackoverflow site, but was refered here.
I did get some info there, but think it need's more indepth input.
So hopefuly people here can help.
I have a few domains ...
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Simple solution to XSS
I've got an idea as to how to defeat XSS so simple that it may work and was wondering if anybody had already done something similar.
The goal here is not efficiency but security. In other words I ...
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“pagesinxt.com” links in the sourcecode, am I being hacked?
At this moment I am being hacked and I do not know to stop it. Let me explain...
My website is hosted in a VPS where I am the only person who has access to it. The page is builtwith ...
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How Do Spammers Exploit Mailto Fields?
I was interested in finding out how spammers can target my Mailto link to send out spams.
mailto:foo@domain.com?subject=foo
Is it just a case of appending
?from=foo?to=victim1;victim2;victim3
to ...
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HTTPOnly Cookies: Security Depends on Client Cooperation?
I've been implementing HTTPOnly cookie-based session handling and have some questions about what HTTPOnly means.
I realise it's a flag that gets passed around in the HTTP header when setting cookies. ...
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Attack Vectors for Purely Static Website (HTML and CSS)
I am sorry if this is a too trivial question, but once I was told that only a fool is sure of anything: as I am not sure about this question, I am willing to risk my neck by asking it anyway, all in ...
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Breaking out of attribute in double quotes
I have a piece of code that allows for
[url]someurl[/url]
BB-Code and replaces it with
<a href="someurl">someurl</a>
It takes two precautions to prevent XSS.
It replaces ...
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What are the benefits and drawbacks of the HTML5 Keygen element?
As of January 2013, what are the potential benefits and drawbacks of the HTML5 Keygen element?
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Closing an HTML tag without using the actual character
I'm currently learning how to perform XSS on websites, but there is a constant problem that keeps recurring that I'm sure must be easy to bypass.
Quite often, the website will filter out quotation ...
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What does a HTML filter need to do, to protect against SVG attacks?
I recently learned that SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images introduce a number of opportunities for subtle attacks on the web. (See paper below.) While SVG images may look like an image, the file ...
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How can I embed iframe securely without restricting its functionality?
I'd want to embed an iframe from untrusted site into web application. Iframe:
should be able to run Javascript and browser plugins (Flash, etc.)
should not be able to access my web application ...
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Is it possible to make an xss with only html tags
I'm not aware of all the xss tricks..
While programming in Ruby on Rails, using a sanitize method to allow only certain tags and it makes its best to clear all the other tags and scripts
the ...
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How do I prevent my Rails application from attack? [closed]
My website is being nuked by new signups and new posts some of which don't even have user.id associated with.
How do I solve this? What code should I add to the user#new page and/or post#new page.
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Comparison between Data Encryption Tools and Data Sanitization Tools [closed]
What are the famous Data Sanitization Tools for languages such as ASP/PHP/Html Web Sites?
Which Data Sanitization tools have the best results?
Difference between Data encryption and Data ...
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Drupal filters XSS with regexes. What could bypass it?
Drupal filters HTML strings against XSS attacks using regexes: http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes%21common.inc/function/filter_xss/7
However, as a lot of people know, HTML can't be parsed with ...
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Robust HTML Parser [closed]
I was reading a book(The Tangled Web) -- what I list below is my understanding of the steps involved in writing a good markup filter.
- build an in-memory document tree
- walk the tree
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Limited JavaScript app scenario: Attack vectors and mitigation
I'm going to be developing a single page JavaScript app which allows input via a textarea. This input is never sent to the server, never shown to another user, and will only be persisted in browser ...
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Does filtering HTML syntax prevent a web shell from being dropped through a textbox? [closed]
I have an admin panel that is running off a mysql db. On that panel, I have text boxes that allow an "Admin" to input plain text OR HTML Styling that will be displayed on a section of the site that is ...
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Can I extend the validity of a nonce-code? [closed]
I made a URL Shortener on the admin interface of my website. The provider of the Shortener (YOURLS) secured the admin page with a security token, a nonce with 10 to 12 characters. I copied the whole ...
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Is it secure to use jQuery on the server-side for user input validation?
I'm thinking about using jQuery on the server-side (node.js) to validate user input (filter tags, remove every attributes except href, rel, target & style, modify css rules which are applied ...
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Workarounds for :visited CSS History reconnaissance
Several years ago it was possible to use
a:visited {
background: url('/log.php');
}
to figure out on what website user has been previously. But now it is restricted by browsers. Is there any ...
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Clickjacking: can't browsers just forbid/reject placing transparent elements over frames?
Why not? Seems like this is only used for clickjacking, the solution should be simple enough.
