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# ha.ckers.org web application security lab - Archive » Firefox Header Redirection JavaScript Execution

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## [Firefox Header Redirection JavaScript Execution](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070309/firefox-header-redirection-javascript-execution/)

This sounds a lot sexier than it actually is, although it was interesting to find that only Firefox was vulnerable to this (tried IE and Opera with no results). However, if you perform a timed redirection from within the HTTP headers and instead of redirecting to a URL you redirect to a JavaScript function you can execute JavaScript. The only upside to this technique is if you must do response splitting and you are limited in what you can do, or if you want to obfuscate where and how the JavaScript is firing that performs the malicious activity.

[Click here for an example (only works in Firefox)](http://ha.ckers.org/weird/header-redirection.cgi). Like I said, this isn’t that particularly interesting, but it could be somewhat useful in some obscure circumstances. Nothing to see here, move along….

  This entry was posted on Friday, March 9th, 2007 at 5:06 pm and is filed under [XSS](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/category/webappsec/xss/), [Webappsec](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/category/webappsec/). You can follow any responses to this entry through the [RSS 2.0](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070309/firefox-header-redirection-javascript-execution/feed/) feed. You can leave a response, or [trackback](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070309/firefox-header-redirection-javascript-execution/trackback/) from your own site.

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