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Fix html attribute escaping #4015
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Why does |
It's not exactly a security issue in this case. const parent = document.body;
const text = 'hello "world"';
parent.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', `<div data-string="${text}"></div>`);
if (parent.firstChild.dataset.string !== text) {
throw new Error('oops! lost information');
}
I've no idea. I assume |
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This makes sense to me. Thank you!
Fixes #4014.
This just adds the missing
&
and removes superfluous<>
from the html attribute escape dictionary.<>
are treated as raw characters inside a double-quoted attribute value. This means they can contain</script>
and friends inside, but if we're already in rawtext mode (meaning, inside an open<script>
or other greedy html tags), then we're already inside an xss vector and we'd have to escape every single character, askill(everyone)
would be a valid value.Try it:
<tag data-value="<script>alert('pwned')</script>">
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