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XSS Attacks
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XSS Attacks

by Seth Fogie, Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, Anton Rager, Petko D. Petkov
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
19h 4m
English
Syngress
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XSS Theory 9 Chapter 3 123
application ignores
.htm
and
.html
extensions, this technique can be used to bypass rigid XSS
filters.
Apart from this issue, IE used to suffer from an embedded .2~XSS vulnerability which
provides attackers with the ability to compromise images that are embed inside a page rather
than being accessed as a resource. The difference between embed and resource images is
explained with the following example:
<html>
<body>
</body>
</html>
<img src="test.jpg"/>
If you open the code snippet presented here inside your browser, you will notice that no
alert boxes ...
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