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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...